P21. Occupational situation
Circle the code corresponding to one of the abbreviations copied at the bottom of the page, according to the declaration of the interviewee.
[] 1. OCC = Employed (working currently)
[] 2. CHO = Unemployed (ever worked)
[] 3. RPE = Looking for first job
[] 4. PFO = Housewife, person living at home
[] 5. ETU = Student/pupil
[] 6. RET = Retired
[] 7. REN = Pensioned/living on one's private income
[] 8. AUT = No work
If P21=3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (not active in the labor force), go to P26.
[Question P21 asked only of people aged 6 years or older.]
These questions aim at knowing the activities related to education and employment for persons aged 6 years or more [the French text says more than 6 years].
Children aged less than 6 years are not concerned with questions from P16 to P25.
Employment status (occupational status) (P21 to P25)
The following questions concern only the population aged 6 years and above. For persons below that age, one will write nothing on questions P24 to P30.
For persons who are employed, one will ask the type of work or the type of employment they are in, or that they were in from July 15, 2002 to August 15, 2002.
P21: Activity status
Among the persons who are at least 6 years of age, one distinguishes between two main categories:
Those who are not able to work.
Among those who are able to work there are:
Those who are looking for work and who have already worked [before] circle the number "2" (CHO).
Those who are looking for there first job (who have never worked): circle the number "3" (RPE).
(In "2" one includes those) persons who are look for work, after having already worked, and who were actively looking for a job over the past month.
(In "3" one includes) those who are looking for there first job, that is those who have never worked before the reference night.
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Among those who are not able to work, one notes:
Those who can no longer work because of old age (RET)
Examples:
2. The older men and women who do not work anymore, and who do not receive a pension, but live on allowances given by family members or by benefactors; those are also classified as retired (RET).
3. Those who do not work anymore, and who live on the fruits of their own fortune, on gifts, or on private income (REN).
Examples: Persons who do not work anymore because their private income (fortune) is enough for making a living.
Pupils and students (ETU)
Those who have another reason for not working (AUT); circle the number corresponding to the answer given.
Remarks:
1. One does not ask somebody: "What are you doing?" But one asks politely: "Do you work?" If the answer is "Yes", one obtains "OCC". If the answer is "No", one continues asking subsidiary questions, to know whether he/she has already worked, or whether he/she is currently looking for work and whether he/she is looking for a first job. One will ask whether he/she will take that job if it were offered to him/her now.
Answers given allow one to identify the jobless persons (CHO), the persons who are looking for a first job (RPE), as well as the retired persons (RET), the persons living on their own private income (REN), the housewives and persons living at home (PFO), and so forth, who will be more clearly identified.
The category of persons who are only occupied with housework, without a salary, concerns mainly the women, the girls and the men who are dealing with housework and children; most of those people live typically in towns and cities.
In the countryside, housework goes together with agricultural or livestock farming. In such cases, one will say that these persons are employed (OCC).
Likewise for women who work with their husbands, or with other relatives in various occupations (craft industry, trade, and so forth).
Pupils and students are those who attended school during the school (academic) year 2001-2002. The person who had stopped his/her studies for a short period will be considered as student (ETU) if he/she is still registered in the school he/she attended previously.
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However, if he/she has finished his/her studies, and if he/she is already employed, one will circle "1" (OCC). If he/she is looking for the first job, one will circle "3" (RPE).
For students who have completed secondary school, and who do not know whether they will continue to higher education (university), one will circle "5" (ETU).
For students on short term contracts (temporarily employed), one will consider that they are still students, whereas those who have a job but still go to training sessions at night will be enumerated as "employed" (OCC).
The person who is jobless, or who does not study anymore will be enumerated in category 8 (AUT).
One can also include in this category: disabled/handicap persons, and other jobless youth who abandoned school.
2. A servant (boy) is employed, and one writes "1" (OCC) instead of "4" (PFO).
A woman who works on her own (sewing, and so forth) is considered self-employed, even if she works at home; one will write "1" (OCC).
A farmer and his/her aids are enumerated as "employed", and one will write "1" (OCC), even if the census occurs outside of the cultivation period.
Persons who are temporarily suspended from their job, or those who are in vacation or on leave of absence (for sickness or other reason) will be considered as "employed", and one will write "1" (OCC).
A person who has already worked, and went back to school for studying, is considered as a jobless person (CHO) when he/she comes back on the job market; he/she is not "3" (RPE).
Examples:
For a civil servant, who is on regular holiday for 25 days, one will write that he/she is employed by circling "1" (OCC) in P21.
A person who says he/she is busy with house work, but who also takes care of the fields is employed: circle "1" (OCC) in P21.
For a person who says he/she is busy with housework only, and who does not receive a salary: circle "4" (PFO) in P21.
3. If at the beginning of the third week of July, the enumerated person had a job but who lost it and does not work by the second week of August, or if he/she was jobless in the third week of July but has found a job later, this person will be enumerated as "1" (OCC).
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Answers of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 lead to directly going to P26.