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A. Data on population

9. Current activity status

[] Professionals (other than pensioners)
[] Working pensioner
[] Person on maternity leave
[] Person on parental leave
[] Unemployed
[] Secondary school student
[] University student
[] Person in household
[] Pensioner
[] Capital gain beneficiary
[] Child under 16 years of age (born after 20.5.1995)
[] Other
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Census form A. Population data
Census form A. Population data was completed by each member of the household. For a minor citizen or a citizen who could not provide data on his/her own, the data should be provided by their legal representative, a family member or the owner of the house.

Economic activity
Economic activity is an indication of the position of the population on the labor market at the decisive point of the census. All residents except foreigners residing in the Slovak Republic for less than 90 days are obliged to fill in this information. The following options are available:

- Employed (excluding pensioners)
This group consists of 16-year-olds and older who were employed at the time of the census or were engaged in business regardless of temporary absence from work due to temporary incapacity for work or vacation and did not receive an old-age, early retirement, disability, or retirement pension. For the purposes of the census, residents were also considered to be employed in an agreement on the employment contract and the work contract. This does not include full-time students of secondary schools and universities employed on the basis of contracts for work performed outside employment (temporary work). Entrepreneurs with or without employees were also included in the group of workers. Also assisting members of households in family businesses, persons in custody or serving a term in prison, if their employment is continuous.
- Working pensioners
This group includes residents receiving old-age, early retirement, disability or early retirement pensions who were at the time of the census employed or engaged in entrepreneurial activity. A working pensioner is also a pensioner employed under a work agreement and work activity agreement.
- Persons on maternity leave
This group includes residents on maternity leave while their employment lasted. A person was not considered to be on maternity leave for the purpose of the census if they have never been employed or if their employment or similar employment relationship ended. If this person was not employed, they can choose from the options of unemployed, housewife or other (economic activity).
- Persons on parental leave
This group included residents on parental leave if their employment lasted. A person on parental leave was not a person on parental leave if they had never been employed or his/her employment or similar employment relationship has ended. If this person did not have an employment relationship, he/she could choose from the following options: "unemployed", "homemaker" or "other".
- Unemployed
This group includes 16-year-olds and older who were unemployed at the decisive point of the census and who were actively looking for work regardless of whether or not they were on the job seekers register.
- High school students
This group includes full-time students in secondary schools (including apprentices). Secondary school students receiving a disability pension are not considered students.
- University students
This group included full-time students at universities. University students receiving disability pensions are not considered students.
- Homemakers
This group includes residents aged 16 and over who did not have their own income and were financially dependent on other member(s) of the household. A homemaker was also considered a resident who did not work at the decisive point of the census and did not actively seek work (the so-called voluntarily unemployed). As homemakers are also considered unemployed students studying distance or external learning programs and unemployed school leavers if they were not actively seeking work and were financially dependent on other members of the household.
- Pensioners
This group includes residents who received old-age, early old-age, disability or retirement pensions, and the pension was their only source of income. Children under the age of 16 and full-time students of secondary or higher education institutions receiving disability pensions were also considered to be pensioners, provided that the pension was the only source of their income.
- Beneficiaries of capital revenue
This group includes residents whose main source of income was income from own property rentals, income from capital assets (interest on securities, deposits, etc.).
- Children under 16 years (born after 20.05.1995)
This group included residents who had not reached the age of 16 at the decisive point of the census.
- Other (economic activity)
This economic activity was marked by residents who were not financially dependent on other member(s) of the household and did not belong to any of the groups listed above. Other economic activity was also selected by unemployed persons who were in custody or serving a custodial sentence if their employment relationship did not last.
- Economically active
The economically active population were considered to be residents who were working (except for pensioners), working pensioners, the unemployed, and persons on maternity leave at the time of the census in accordance with these methodological notes.