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19. Economic status of the enumerated person at the reference period, the week of March 11 - 17, 2002 (only one code will be marked)

[] 1 Employed
[] 2 Unemployed: Seeking another job
[] 3 Unemployed: First-time job-seeker
[] 4 Pupil/student
[] 5 Pensioner
[] 6 Homemaker
[] 7 Dependent of a supporter
[] 8 Dependent on public aid or private organization support
[] 9 Other economic status (income from rent, interest, leasing, other sources)

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Economic status of the enumerated person (item 19)

66. In order to characterize the economic status of the person, the recording of these characteristics is referring to two different references period. The first one (one week reference period: March 11 -- 17, 2002), establishes the current economic situation of the persons, who should be registered on items 19 -- 25, and the second (will be the reference year prior to the census: March 2001 -- March 2002) and is referring to the regular economic situation of the persons who will be registered on the items 26 and 27.

67. Economic status of the person is referring to the current relation of the enumerated with his economic and social activity and the way of assuring its source for living.
The mark x will be written on the code box corresponding to the economic situation of the enumerated person at the census time (the week March 11-17, 2002).
For each person, to the item 19 a single situation will be written, according to the following specification:

-- the mark x on the code box 1 regarding the employed persons.

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They are considered as employed, at the census moment, all persons14 year old and above, who during the reference period of a week (March 11 -- 17, 2002) were in one of the following categories:

a) performed economic or social activity for wage paid in cash or in kind, for at least one hour during the reference week (practically being engaged in an economic or social activity). For example:

-- the engaged persons of the economic or social unit, public or private, (including those permanently engaged by natural persons) and the engaged relying on a civil contract for carrying out services;
-- self -- employment, persons performing the work in their own enterprise (own commercial company);
-- independent working persons, with license or without it -- craftsmen (house painters, tailors etc.), free professionals (lawyers, notaries, accountants, doctors, artists, etc.), merchants, or independent service workers (salesman, taxi drivers, carriers (transporters, musicians, etc.);
-- working individual farmers (more than 15 hours during the reference week) on their own farm, regardless of whether their products are sold, bartered or for own consumption;
-- contributing aiding family household workers, either they are working on own-account production unit, or are working on own non-agricultural field, even they are not paid for their activity. Persons helping a household member working in agricultural activities, even they are not paid, are considered employed only whether they worked at least 15 hours during the reference week;
-- persons working on family association for non-agricultural activities;
-- members of an agricultural enterprise, craftsmen co-operative, consumption co-operative, credit co-operative, who are working for these units.

b) were temporarily absent from the working place, (with a job but not at work), but had a formal attachment to their job. For example: absent persons due to illness, holiday-vacation, (for rest, for studies, without pay, for maternity, etc.), due to economic activity reduction, temporarily suspension of the work (due to bad weather, mechanical or electrical breakdown, or shortage of raw materials, lack of clients), due to strikes or working conflicts, extra season, job training scheme, military compelled conscript;

The formal job attachment should be determined on the basis of the following criteria:
-- assurance of return to work, following the end of the unpredicted event or an agreement of the date of return;
-- continued receipt of some rights (cash, salary in kind);

c) not permanently engaged persons for an economic and social activity (according to the provisions of point " a "), but during the week March 11- 17, 2002, they worked, exceptionally or occasionally at least one hour, for pay or profit, helping a household member or a relative on their activities, on their own enterprise, to perform a craft by using its professional ability, or by carrying out a service, independently, even the persons were not paid for this activity.

The persons who during the week of March 11- March 17, 2002 worked, exceptionally or occasionally, on agricultural activities are considered employed, if they worked at least 15 hours.

d) all members of the armed forces (should be included persons enrolled in the army and the auxiliary services staff);

e) compulsory conscript militaries;

f) Romanian citizens working abroad for economic or social foreign units, (including those daily crossing the border for working).

Particular situations: pupils, students, homemakers, as well as pensioners who during the week March 11 -- 17, 2002 had an economic or social activity regularly, occasionally or exceptionally, should be considered as employed.

Are not considered employed:

-- persons active only on social and charitable or voluntary activities;
-- homemakers, who most of the time were engaged only on household duties in their own home;

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-- confined inmates in the prison, even they did some work on the detention place;
-- The mark x will be written on the boxes for codes 2 or 3 for the persons declaring that are unemployed (or seeking another place of work or first-time job-seekers).

Unemployed are the persons of working age, 14 years old and above (up to the retirement legal age) who at the reference period were without work -- not having arranged engaging job contract, or didn't performed self -- employment activity, were currently available for work, and -- regardless of whether they are registered or not at the unemployment office (receiving or not unemployment aid or for professional integration, and/or support allowance) - were actively seeking for work.

They are also considered unemployed:

-- homemaker persons declaring that they are available for work and are seeking for a job;

They are considered unemployed too:

-- persons without work, ready to work and who did arrangements to start the work, or to start a self-employment activity at a date subsequent to the reference week;
-- persons usually engaged on seasonal works (agriculture, constructions, tourism), whose working contract ended due to the extra-season period, but waiting the new season to come in order to re-start their activities, but not having any formal attachment to their job.

Depending of the particular situation of each unemployed person, these should be recorded on one of the following categories:

a) the unemployed seeking another work are those persons who had a working place before but lost it or left it (code2);

first -- time job-seeker are those persons who never worked, never were engaged before the reference census moment to an economic or social paid activity, in cash or in kind, (for example: graduated from general schools, vocational schools, high schools, high education institutions; homemakers who never worked, etc.), but who are, at the reference census moment, on the course for seeking a job (code 3).

-- The mark x will be written on the code box 4 (pupil/student) -- for persons not economically active - on economic or social activity -- who most of the reference period attended a regular educational institution, (public or private) for systematic instruction at any level of education aiming to get a profession.

There are also included in this category:

-- pupil/student living only from the successor's pension, or school's fellowship;
-- persons attending military educational institution, belonging to the National Defense Ministry or Ministry of Interior;
-- pupils and students engaged in unpaid household duties in their own home (who are not considered employed persons).

Are not included in this category:
-- persons 14 years of age and above, attending the courses of an educational institution and at the same time, are performing an economic or social activity, obtaining an income (these persons being considered as employed).

-- The mark x will be written on code box 5 (pensioner) -- for persons receiving any kind of pensions benefits: old age limit retirement, retired because of disability, survivor's pensioner , agricultural pensioner, military pensioner, veteran pensioner, pensioner of the craftsmen co-operatives, survivor's pensioner of the revolution heroes.

Are not included: pupils, students and pre-school children who are receiving successor's pension.

-- The mark x will be written on the code box 6 (homemaker) for persons 14 years old and above, usually engaged in unpaid household duties in their own home (preparing the meals, cleaning, taking care and educating the children), or the relatives (for example: the parent who are taking care of the household of their children and care of their grandchildren) who do not have their own income resource.

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Are not included:

-- homemakers engaged in housekeeping duties who are working for pay or a profit (cash or in kind or assuring a dwelling) -- will be classified as employed;
-- individual farmers working usually on their own farm, regardless of whether the obtained products are assigned to be sold, to be exchanged or for own consumption -- will be classified as employed;
-- pupils and students and the pensioners, even if they are performing household duties. These will be codified by code 4 or code 5, according to the situation.

-- The mark x will be written on code box 7 (dependent on a supporter) for persons not having own resources and who are relying on the support of the parents, of the relatives or of another persons, who are not classified as homemakers, or are not attending an educational institution.

On this category should be included, too:

-- pre-school children even if they are receiving successor's pension;
-- aged people, handicapped and invalid persons, not having any income paid activity, or are not homemakers, and are not benefiting by any pension or another income source, relying on the support of natural persons;
-- persons below 14 year old, who are not attending any educational institution, but who are performing household duties.

-- The markx will be written on the code box 8 (depending on public aid or private organizations supporters) -- for the persons relying on the support of the public institutions (old people houses, hospital hostels, children's house, etc.), or private organizations (Non Governmental Organizations), for persons having as unique source of income the social aid (for example the handicapped persons who are supported by the relatives or other persons, to whom the state is paying an allowance or a salary to the supporters).

Are not included:
-- school children from "children's house" (these will be marked by code 4 --pupil/student);
-- persons living in the hostels receiving pension (these will be included to the code 5 -- pensioner) or to "other income source";
-- pupils and students having as unique source the state fellowship (these will be recorded to the code 4);

-- The mark x will be recorded on the code box 9 (other situations) -- for the persons not classified in any of the above mentioned categories (codes 1 -- 8).

On this category will be included:

-- persons having as main source of livelihood incomes from rents, interests, dividends, leasing;
-- arrested people, being at the census moment in prison;
-- persons not classified in any of the above mentioned categories (codes 1- 8).