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[Questions P22-P25: Persons age 10 years or older]

Type of economic activity
[Questions P23-P25]

P24. What kind of work did [the respondent] do?

[] 1 Legislators, senior officials and managers
[] 2 Professionals
[] 3 Technicians and associate professionals
[] 4 Clerks
[] 5 Service workers, shop and market sales workers
[] 6 Skilled agricultural and fishery worker
[] 7 Craft and related trade workers
[] 8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers
[] 9 Elementary occupations
[] 0 Armed Forces

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Columns P23 to P25 -- Economic activity (Persons age 10 or older)
126. Like marital status, questions on economic activity relate to respondents who are age 10 years or older. Note that the reference period is one month prior to the census; you must therefore concern yourself with the person's economic activities within that period and not beyond.

P23 -- Employment status
127. This question seeks to establish whether the respondent did any work regularly during the month to the census. The appropriate codes are provided in the code list.

128. Some persons are employed by others and earn a salary or wage and if that is the case, then code "01" applies, that is, the person worked for someone else. Other people are self-employed, they work for themselves, and if that is the case, code "02" applies. Other people worked but not for cash, so the appropriate code is "03", etc.

[If the response is "04" to "09" [to question on employment status], do not ask P24 and P25]

P24 -- Occupation
129. Occupation means the main work a person does, irrespective of what is actually produced. Ask as clearly as possible the kind of work the person is doing or did a month to the enumeration.

130. Ask "What is this person's work?" If the answer is "None", ask: "What work has this person done during the last month?" If the answers are vague ask further questions such as, "What does this person actually do?" Use the appropriate code in the code list. For example, a clerk is "Clerical", and would be given code 3; a teacher will be treated as "Professional/technical" and given code 1 and so on.

131. Note that only a single code is required. Therefore for those with more than one occupation, ask for and record the main one.

[Questions P22 - P25: Persons age 10 or older]

P24 What kind of work did [the respondent] do?