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For person 11 years and older or those who were born before and in the year 1968.
For ever-married women.
[Questions L22-L25 were asked of women age 11 and over who have ever been married.]


L28. What job was [respondent] working in during last week?

Specify kind of work i.e. typist, school teacher, accountant, farmer, etc.

Occupation last week (25-31 March 1980) ____

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3.23 Job:

A job that can fall into any following categories:

3.23.1 A job with a return in cash or in kind e.g., food, clothes, commodity. In cash maybe paid on monthly, weekly, daily, or per piece of products basis.
2.23.2 A job with a return in any dividend forms e.g., trading of industrial factory.
3.23.3 Family business job without salary/wages or profits. Family members work as employers or self-employed entrepreneurs.
3.24 Occupation:

A regular job that one is working e.g. statistician, journalist, rural school teacher, horticulturalist, rice farmers.

3.25 Main Occupation

Means a job that one spends most of the time within a specified period of time or refers to as.

3.25.1 Main occupation within 7 days before the date of census (25-31 March 1980) means a job that one spends most of his/her time between 25-30 March 1980.
3.25.2 Last year main occupation (April 1979 - March 1980) means a job on which one spent most of her/his time between April 1979 - March 1980)

To decide which the main occupation is, there are criteria to be considered as follows:

a) A job that one spends more time than any other job.
b) A job that one can earn more while spending the same time.
c) Let the interviewee decide which is her/ his main occupation, in case that s/he spends the same time and earns the same income on the job.
Columns 22 - 29

Ask those who are 11 years old and over, or who were born before or in 1968 (Monkey year)

Column 28 Occupation in last 7 days before the date of census (March 25
- 31, 1980)

Ask "What have you been doing for a living in last 7 days (March 25 - 31, 1980)?"

Record occupation of the interviewee between March 25 - 31, 1980 specifically, e.g. electric appliances sale man, teacher of P4, principal, furniture carpenter, rice carrying laborer, servant, etc.

Do not record government services, trading, or employee because it is not specific.

Those who have more than one occupation, record only one:

1. Occupation they spent most of their time in last 7 days.
2. If they spent equal time in two occupations, record the occupation they earned more income.
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In case that the interviewees have their permanent job e.g., a teacher of a public school or employee of a company:

1. In last 7 days (March 25-31, 1980) they did not work because of sickness or on annual leave, their occupations in last 7 days are their permanent occupations.
2. In last 7 days (March 25 - 31, 1980) they spent more time doing jobs other than their permanent jobs e.g. handicraft in last 7 days before the date of census, their occupations in last 7 days before the date of census are "handicraft maker."

For those who have no permanent job e.g., rice carrying laborer, vender, in last 7 days they have not worked, their occupations in last 7 days before the date of census are "jobless."

Those who did not work e.g., retired officers living on pension, moneylender living on interest, are regarded as "jobless" in this Column.

If the interviewees do not know the occupation of the persons in question, but know they have worked, record "work, do not know occupation".

Again, occupation in last 7 days before the date of census of a person may be the same as, or different from, permanent occupation in last year round (Column 10).