L28. What job was [respondent] working in during last week?
Occupation last week (25-31 March 1980) ____
L29. Reason for not working ____
Example: looking for work, student, aged/disability, waiting for farm season, homemaker, retired official, etc.
A job that can fall into any following categories:
A regular job that one is working e.g. statistician, journalist, rural school teacher, horticulturalist, rice farmers.
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:
In case that the interviewees have their permanent job e.g., a teacher of a public school or employee of a company:
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).
Column 29 Reasons for not working
Ask only those recorded "Do not work" in Column 28.
Ask "Let me know why you do not work?"
Record the reasons. In case that the person is jobless or has no occupation, e.g.