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Economic activities

For those occupied and the unemployed who have already worked
[See column P20. Questions P21 through P23 were asked of persons age 6 or more who reported have worked in question P20.]

(P21) Current profession ____ _ _ _

Record current profession on the dotted lines
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B- Economic activities

Economic activity means any activity of production of goods or services intended to be the subject of an economic exchange or a personal use.

Column P21: Employment practiced

For occupied persons pose the following question: "What is the current employment practiced by [the respondent]?"

For the unemployed having already worked (CDT), pose the following question: "What was the last job practiced by [the respondent]?"

NB 30: For those who state having practiced several jobs simultaneously during the week of reference, note that which has taken up most of their time and record it on the dotted lines.

NB 31: For priests, pastors, monks, imams, voodoo priests, and other religious clerics, ask if beyond their activities of faith, they do not practice other remunerative activities such as fabric trader, teacher in the CEG, nurse, medical practitioner, and so on. In this case, it is this profession, which will be recorded.

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Examples of employment practiced: sorghum farmer, coffee planter, wood joiner, tailor, goat farmer, motorcycle mechanic, cloth seller, local drink dealer, primary school teacher, taxi drive, musical artist, secretary at the CEET, driver at the CHU, and so on.

NB 32:

- The current profession is not necessarily the trade learned. A carpenter by training can have as current profession "general labourer" or "builder's labourer".
- Avoid recording incomplete responses such as: trader, civil servant, inspector, engineer, teacher, doctor, business man, secretary, driver, and so on. Try to specify the employment practiced.

Examples of employment practiced:

- Seller of cloth, seller of peanuts, seller of cola, and so on.
- Police inspector, tax inspector, labour inspector, treasury inspector.
- Pre-school and primary inspector, first cycle of secondary inspector, 2nd cycle of secondary inspector.
- Medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon, and so on.
- TP engineer, Agronomist engineer, rural engineering engineer, civil engineering engineer...
- Primary school director, CEG director, company director.
- CEG teacher, High school teacher, University lecturer, Technical education teacher, and so on.
- Apprentice dressmaker, apprentice hairdresser.
- Health center secretary, bank secretary, CEG secretary, and so on.