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22. Employment status
[] 1 Employee (engaged)
[] 2 Employer, private enterprise owner
[] 3 Working on own account
[] 4 Member of an agricultural company/co-operative
[] 5 Contributing family worker in own household
[] 6 Other employment status
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Status in employment (item 22)

71. Status in employment represents the position of a person related to economical and social performed activity and the way of obtaining the incomes for employment at the working place.

This characteristic will be recorded for all the persons registered as having an occupation at item 21.

The way of recording:
-- The mark x will be written on the code box 1 (employee -engaged)-- for persons performing the activity in an economic or social unit (regardless of the ownership form) and the job is based on work contract for pay in cash or in kind, or bonuses charges (commissions), etc.

They are also considered as employees:

-- the permanent engaged persons by private persons for housekeeping works (baby care, or old man care, for domestic works, etc.);
-- paid engaged persons for job testing;
-- apprentices;
-- the priests and pastors;
-- conscripts on compulsory military services.

-- The mark x will be written on the code box 2 (employer, private enterprise owner) -- for persons working on own unit with one or more employees.

Will be considered employer, private enterprise owner:

-- employers on own account but self-employed on their own enterprise;
-- holders having written contracts for renting or concessionary terms related to engaged employees.

-- The mark x will be written on the code box 3 (own account worker) for persons working in their own unit, or independently (craftsmen, free professionals, traders, independent services laborer) not having any engaged employees, maybe only helped by non-paid members of the household or relatives.

Will be considered as own account worker:

-- the craftsmen self employed in their working shop (tailors, shoemakers, iron smiths, carpenters, wood-cutters, house-painters, etc.);
-- persons who are performing independent trade activities, on own unit (shop, market stalls, etc.), or as ambulant vendors (on fairs, markets, cattle fairs, streets operators);
-- persons working independent transport services (taxi drivers, independent carriers);
-- free professionals (medical doctors on their own clinic, lawyers, musicians, artists, independent accountants, translators);
-- persons committed on written civil contract basis to perform services to economic or social units;
-- individual farmers (only the heads of the household working on own agricultural farm);
-- holders having written contracts or concessionary terms non-related to any employees;
-- contributing workers for home domestic jobs (cleaning, ironing, washing, wood-cutting, children care, old men care, sick men care, etc.).

-- The mark x will be written on the code box 4 (member of an agricultural company/cooperative) -- for persons members of an agricultural company, or the craft cooperative, consumption cooperative or credit cooperative, achieving non-wage incomes.

-- The mark x will be written on the code box 5 (contributing family worker to the own household) -- for the persons who usually are aiding a member of the household, either this is working on its own commercial enterprise, or is working on own account, but who are not receiving wages for their activity (unpaid family aid). To this category are also included the family members of the individual farmer who are working for own household.

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-- The mark x will be written on the cassette of the code 6 (other situation) -- for persons who are not possible to be classified on the above mentioned categories (for instance occasional day -- laborer).

Particular situation: the persons temporarily absent from the working place (see paragraph 67), and unemployed seeking another work will be recorded with the preceding activity status.