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19. Did you perform any work providing earnings or income or did you help pay in a family business?
If the answer is: 1 or 2 - go to question 20; 3 - go to question 25; 4 - go to question 28

[] 1 Yes, go to question 20
[] 2 You temporarily didn't work due to illness, vacation, lay-off, strike etc., but you did have a job (did not concern contributing family members) in reference week (from May 13th to May 19th), go to question 20
[] 3 No, go to question 25
[] 4 Lack of response (concerns persons staying abroad), go to question 28
28. Are you a holder of an agricultural farm (plot) or are you a member of a household with an agricultural farm (plot) holder?
If the answer is: 1 - give the size of arable land and go to question 29; 2 - go to question 29; 3 - go to question 30.

[] 1 Yes; you are a holder of the agricultural farm/plot, go to question 29
Size of farm or plot: ____
[] 2 Yes; you are a member of a household with a farm holder, go to question 29
[] 3 No, go to question 30
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Question 19. Did you perform any work providing earnings or income or did you help without pay in a family business? [p. 38]

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1. Answer 1. yes concerns persons, who in the week of research -- 13 May to 19 May 2002 did for at least 1 hour any work providing earnings or income (in cash or in kind) or helped without pay in a family business or family agricultural farm.

Answer 1 concerns also persons serving in the army or being working abroad.

2. Answer 2. concerns persons who are employed (i.e. have a formal agreement with an employer) or have their own business, but in the week of research did not spend even 1 hour working due to: illness, taking care of an ill child or any other member of the family, maternity leave, holidays, strike, weather conditions preventing them from working etc.

3. Classifying a person as working (answer 1 or 2) the fat of having an agreement with an employer not the king of the contract should be taken into account. A working person is also a person that is doing the work without any formal agreement (grey area). Even if a person is registered as unemployed but did some work in the week of research, he/she should be treated as working.

4. Answer 3. no concerns also persons, who usually help in a family business but did not serve any help in the time between 13 May and 19 May 2002.

5. Answer 4. lack of response concerns persons staying temporarily abroad, especially in the case when no relevant information can be collected from the members of the family.

6. In case an employee stays on unpaid or parental leave, the length of the leave should be taken into consideration. If the leave (unpaid or parental) lasts up to 3 months answer 2 should be indicated, if the leave is longer than 3 months -- the correct answer is answer 3.

Question 28. Are you a holder of an agricultural farm (plot) or are you a member of a household with an agricultural farm (plot) holder? [p. 42-43]

1. Agricultural farm -- means an agricultural and a forest land with the buildings or the parts of the buildings, equipment and inventory as long as they form or may Questionnaire A separate organizational farm.

2. Individual agricultural farmis a farm which covers more than 1 ha of agricultural land and which is owned by an individual person or a group of people.

3. Agricultural plot is a farm which covers more than 0.1 ha and not more than 1 ha of agricultural land and which is owned or used by an individual person or a group of people.

4. An farm animal holder is a person who is not possessing any agricultural land (or the land covers less than 0.1 ha) but owns at least one piece of cattle or/and 5 pieces of flock or/and 1 pig or/and 3 sheep or goats or/and 1 horse or/and 30 chickens or/and 5 female furry animal or/and 1 swarm of bees.

5. Individual farm (plot) covers also:
Land given to employees of forest agency;

Land given to teachers and priests (due to occupational reasons,

Land of members of agricultural societies,

Land leased from Agricultural Land Agency, the State etc. Used privately or collectively by farmers.
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6. Individual farm (plot) does not cover:
Land that is not used in an agricultural way e.g. Plots occupied fully by buildings, gardens etc.,

Allotments,
7. Individual user of a farm (plot) is a private person or a group of people who use the land regardless if they are the owners, leasers or use the land on the basis of any other agreement; the land may be located in one or more communities.

In a household there is only one individual farm user (agricultural plot user).
Answer 1. should be indicated in case of a person cultivating an agricultural land or possessing the farm animals. A person who is absent from his/her place of living for more than 12 months should not be classified as a farm user.
In case of farm user the size of the farm should be given regardless if the land is owned, leased or used only other basis.

Answer 3 should be indicated in case of persons who are members of civil companies performing agricultural activity; such household should be enumerated separately.
8. In case of farm animals? owners who do not possess any farm land, the size of the agricultural farm should be indicated by 0.
Please Notice: In case of the presence of individual farm user in the household and the acreage of the agricultural land (given in question 28) exceeds 1 ha, Form R1 should be filled.

In case of the presence of individual farm user in the household and the acreage of the agricultural land (given in question 28) between 0.1 ha and 1 ha, Form R2 should be filled.

In case of the presence of farm animal holder in the household and the acreage of the agricultural land (given in question 28) smaller than 0.1 ha, Form R2 should be filled.

Farm (agricultural plots) of civil companies should be enumerated using Form R3