5. Module -- Source of maintenance(Concerns persons aged 15 years or more)
[Questions 1-2 were asked of persons aged 15 years or more.]
1. What is your main source of maintenance?
[] 1. Income from hired work in the public sector
[] 2. Income from hired work in the private sector
[] 3. Income from self-employment outside agriculture
[] 4. Income from self-employment in agriculture
[] 5. Income from renting
[] 6. Income from property
[] 7. Retirement pay (for employees, combatants, farmers)
[] 8. Structural pension
[] 9. Pension resulting from an inability to work, pension for invalids
[] 10. Family pension
[] 11. Social pension
[] 12. Unemployment benefit
[] 13. Pre-retirement benefit or allowance
[] 14. Social assistance benefits
[] 15. Other sources of income not elsewhere specified
[] 16. Dependent
Module 5 -- Source of maintenance (questions 1-2)
The questions concerns persons aged 15 years or more.
[Questions 1-2 were asked of persons aged 15 years or more.]
The aim of the questions included in this module is to specify the source of maintenance, which has provided earnings used to fulfill needs of members of the household.
1. Information on sources of maintenance should be gathered from consecutive members of the household or from the representative of the household.
2. Sources of maintenance and earnings obtained within the last year (12 months) before the census should be considered.
3. While specifying sources of maintenance of consecutive individuals, the income is not important. The individuals should only be asked to specify the sources of the earnings.
The following groups of sources of maintenance are distinguished:
- Earnings (income) from work performed on one's own, regardless of the type of employment,
- Income from property,
- Income from renting,
- Non-earned sources of income
- Dependency on other members of the household, having their own sources of income.
4. Own sources of maintenance should be indicated for individuals aged 15 and older.
5. Dependency should be indicated for individuals, who obtained no income at all.
6. Dependency can be only indicated as the main source of maintenance. It cannot be considered as the additional source of maintenance.
7. Income from work, being one's source of maintenance should be indicated for individuals earning in such a way, regardless of the fact, it they are performing any job or they are unemployed at the moment, but obtained income from a seasonal or part-time job.
8. Non-earned source of maintenance should be indicated for individuals, the main source of maintenance of whom is: pension, social pension, unemployment benefit, pre-retirement benefit or allowance, family pension, etc.
Question 1. What is your main source of maintenance?
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Please specify the source of income, which has been the main source of maintenance for all members of the household aged 15 and older.
The main source of maintenance is the source connected with the highest earnings. If a person has had only one source of maintenance during the year before the census performance -- it should be considered as the main and the only source of maintenance.
In the case of having more than one source of maintenance, it should be specified, which one is the most important one (the main source of maintenance), and which one is the additional source of maintenance (connected with lower earnings).
Sources of maintenance connected with hired works (in public and private sector) concern:
- Individuals employed on the basis of employment contracts (contract of service, mandate, contract of specified work, designation, election or appointment) in state institutions, social institutions, offices governed by political parties or trade unions, in private companies, in agricultural holdings, as well as persons working for individuals.
- Individuals performing outworks,
- Students (and individuals doing work experience), who are working on the basis of the vocational training agreement between them and companies or other individuals,
- Individuals obtaining incomes without being formally employed,
- Individuals performing works strictly connected with priesthood (priests, parsons)
- Individuals employed in an agricultural holding or any other economic activity operated by the family and being members of the household (the household of the farm user or the owner of the economic activity), who receive payment for their services (even if the payment is not undertaken in the cash settlement form), should be considered as individuals obtaining earnings by performing hired works in the private sector rather than being contributing family workers.
Answer "1. income from hired work in the public sector" -- should be indicated for all individuals income for performing hired works in institutions and companies being owned by the state (the State Treasury or state authorities) or by local authorities. The same answer should be indicated for works performed for institutions or companies being owned by few parties, with prevailing ownership of the State Treasury, legal persons or local authorities.
Answer "2. income from hired work in the private sector" -- should be indicated for individuals obtaining income for hired works performed in companies owned by the state, foreign entrepreneurs, being owned by few parties or by individuals (as in the case of work in factories, companies, on individuals farms owned by companies, foreign companies, collectives, political parties, foundations or religious institutions).
Answer "3. income from self-employment outside agriculture" -- should be indicated for all individuals obtaining incomes from working on their own account by operating an economic activity (both registered and not registered) that is -- owning industrial, construction-oriented, commercial factories (enterprises), hotels, nursing houses, various servicing points, schools, theaters, kindergartens, nurseries, etc., as well as for individuals performing liberal professions, for example: doctors, vets, lawyers, artists, writers, as well as for individuals, who have been required to register their economic activities. Agents working in all types of agencies should be included as well. Own-account workers are also contributing family workers, who support their family in operating an economic activity outside agriculture without obtaining any set payment.
Answer "4. income from self-employment in agriculture" -- should be indicated for all individuals obtaining incomes for working on their own farm (agricultural holding), the work of whom is connected with animal or plant-related production that is -- for all farm users (regardless if they are owners, leasers or own the holding on the basis of different agreements) and animal breeders. Moreover, individuals obtaining incomes for providing services, which are strictly connected to agriculture, such as fertilization of fields, spurting, servicing and management of irrigation systems, artificial insemination of animals, forestry and hunting-related services should also have the "4" answer indicated. All contributing family workers supporting the farm user without receiving set payment fall into this category as well. The answer should be also indicated for all members of agricultural collectives, agricultural associations and members of civil partnerships operating in agriculture.
Answer "5. income from renting" -- should be indicated for all individuals obtaining income for renting flats, rooms, inhabitable buildings, as well as uninhabitable buildings like garages.
Answer "6. income from property" -- should be indicated for all individuals obtaining incomes for leasing arable lands, capital investments (shares and debentures trade, profits from owned capital, etc.), as well as obtaining profits from their savings and earnings of companies (dividends).
Answer "7. retirement pay (for employees, combatants, farmers)" -- should be indicated for individuals obtaining income, which is strictly connected with all types of retirement payments provided in consideration for being insured, working in the county or abroad.
Answer "8. structural pension" -- should be indicated for all individuals, who have handed over their agricultural holding and stopped performing any agriculture-related works. The structural pension is paid up to the age of 65.
Answer "9. pension resulting from an inability to work, pension for invalids" -- should be indicated for all individuals receiving pensions (permanent or temporary), which are granted on the basis of statements issued by the medical referees (a proper adjudicating body) concerning inability to work. The answer should be also indicated for individuals receiving rehabilitation pensions, training pensions, as well as accident benefits.
Answer "10. family pension" -- should be indicated for all individuals obtaining pensions due to death of their partner, parent, other related individuals, as well as receiving foreign family pensions. The pension granted for children below 15 should be considered as source of maintenance of their parents.
Answer "11. social pension" -- should be indicated for individuals obtaining pensions due to their complete inability to work, because of their disability, which occurred before the age of 18 or 25, during studying in a secondary or tertiary school.
Answer "12. unemployment benefit" -- should be indicated for individuals receiving unemployment benefits and registered in local Offices of Employment as unemployed temporarily.
Answer "13. pre-retirement benefit or allowance" -- should be indicated for all individuals obtaining the aforementioned benefit or pension; only individuals meeting the following requirements can obtain them: loosing work due to workplace-related issues, age, professional experience or registration in the Office of Employment. The benefit or allowance is obtained for a set period of time that is -- until being allowed to receive pension.
Answer "14. social assistance benefits" -- should be indicated for individuals obtaining social benefits due to their low incomes, bad health condition, age or difficult personal situation, making it impossible for them to live on without support.
Answer "15. other sources of income not elsewhere specified" -- should be indicated for individuals, who obtain incomes from different sources than those specified in points 1-14, such as alimony for individual persons, scholarships or grants for sport-related achievements.
Answer "16. dependent" -- should be indicated for all individuals being supported by other persons having their own source of income.