Part IV: Questions on personal characteristics
Employment status in the last week
(Ask persons age 12 or older)
[Questions 34-42 were asked of persons age 12 or older]
42. What is your main occupation?
Ask persons age 12 or older
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If you have one, specify____
Section IV: Questions regarding individual characteristics (11-42)
This section includes questions (questions 11-42) about the population's social and economic characteristics. In this section, only write the characteristics of those people present at the time and place where the census is being conducted.
Whether or not the household head is at home, be absolutely sure to begin by first writing his/her name and surname on the first line of Section IV, together with all of his/her characteristics (from question 11 to question 42). Take care that the household head's name and surname entered in this section is identical to the one written in in the first line of Section III.
After writing down all of the characteristics of the household head, whether he/she is at home or not, also write down all the characteristics of the other household members at home, beginning from the oldest and proceeding in order of age, from oldest to youngest. After the household members, write onto the dotted line in printed letters, in order of their ages, the names surnames and all the characteristics of those, who, while being present at home, are not household members. Answer questions with a box, by placing an "X" into it.
(Questions 29-42 are for persons age 12 or older)
Question 42: What is your main profession?
(Persons age 12 or older)
Main profession: A professional skill acquired that is the outcome of a period of study or specialization, based on knowledge, observational and practical experience.
For a person to have a profession, it is not absolutely necessary that the profession be practiced. However, the person must have the skill for practicing doing it, when required.
Regardless of whether the person did or did not work, or did or did not maintain a connection with a job during the last week, ask the main profession question of everyone age 12 or older.
If the person being administered the census lacks a profession, place an "X" into the 00 "None" box. For those with a profession, clearly write the profession into the "___" section. As for example: teacher, doctor, farmer, viticulturist, lathe operator, economist, nurse, mechanical engineer.
In designating the professions, pay attention to the following points:
- To be equipped to practice certain professions, it is necessary to have completed a specific course of study or specialization. As for example: medical doctor, pharmacist, architect, mathematics teacher, class teacher, attorney.
- In the case of some other professions, however, just as the acquisition of knowledge to engage in them may be accomplished through completing an educational institution and a branch of specialization, it may also be the outcome of knowledge, observational and practical experience. As for example an: auto repairman, carpenter, electric installer, lathe operator.
- Even if those with professions had worked in a job outside their professions during the week preceding census day, the one that should be referenced is not that profession, but instead the ones that were acquired as the outcome of education or specialization. As for example: the main profession of a medical doctor who engaged in trade is "Medical doctor"; the main profession of an attorney acting as mayor of a municipality is "Attorney".
- Households involved in agriculture are to be regarded as farm operators. Accordingly, agriculture as the main profession of the head of the household or any of its members should be specified according to the agricultural activity worked in, such as: livestock operator (large- or small-head), vegetable grower, fruit grower, flower grower, beekeeper, poultry operator, etc.
- The main profession of other people in the household engaged in agriculture is to be denoted as: working in animal husbandry, working in fruit culture, working in field agriculture, working in flower growing, or working in poultry husbandry.
- If the household head is a farm operator, then (as long as they did not declare another profession) the professions of other members of this household are to be designated according to the agricultural activity that they engage in, without reference to that of the household head's.
- The professions should not be written in general terms, but instead, explicitly. They should be designated not as cobbler but as shoe-maker, shoe repairman, shoe seller, shoe shiner.
- Instead of using terms such as manual laborer, worker, master (artisan), journeyman, artist, engineer, broker, building contractor, that are applied to designate many professions, they should instead be designated as in the form of journeyman barber, farm laborer, road construction worker, mechanical engineer, technical illustrator, construction engineer, real estate broker, etc.
- The professions of combat officers and non-commissioned officers working in the military should be designated as officer or non-commissioned officer, without regard to their rank. Professions of reserve officers and rank and file soldiers should be designated as being whatever occupation/profession they had taken up prior to entering the military. Professions of non-combat class officers and non-commissioned officers working in the military are to be designated according to the professions they had taken up based on education or knowledge, observational and practical experience (such as doctor, health officer, chemist, mechanical engineer, electronics technician, etc.). The professions of civil servants working in the military are to be designated according to their acquired professions.