For employed persons and unemployed ones who ever worked (who answers items (1--5) of question 74, and if the answers (6--12) go to question 83
[Questions 79 through 82 asked of persons aged 7 or older who were employed or unemployed as indicated in questions 74 responses 1 through 5.]
80. Main employment status
[] 1. Employer
[] 2. Self employed
[] 3. Regular wage employee
[] 4. Irregular wage employee
[] 5. Unpaid family member
Employment status:
It refers to the employment status of the employed or unemployed ever worked persons. The employment status is categorized as follows:
1. Employer: A person who works in an establishment that is totally or partially belonging to him/her and hires or supervises the work of one or more waged employees. This includes persons operating their projects or contracting companies provided they employ a minimum of one waged employee. Shareholders are not considered employers even if they are working in it.
2. Self-employed: A person who works in an establishment that is totally or partially belonging to him/her (partner) and does not hire any wage employees. This includes self-employed who work to own selves outside establishments.
3. Regular wage employee: A person who works for another person or for the account of a particular establishment / enterprise under its supervision and receives remuneration in wage, salary, commission, tips, piece rates or another remuneration kind. Taking into account that there is an agreement (oral / written) between the employer and the worker to guarantee some rights for the employee. This item includes persons employed in governmental, non-governmental and private institutions along with those employed in a household enterprise in return for a specific remuneration, UNRWA, regular employee/ national private sector / foreign private sector.
4. Irregular wage employee: A person who works for another person or for the account of an establishment / enterprise under its supervision irregularly, such as casual employees, employees on a daily or weekly basis without any formal attachment with the work, and when they are out of work in the reference period, they are not classified as workers.
5. Unpaid family member: A person who works without pay in an economic enterprise operated by a related person in the same household.