16. Economic activity
What did [respondent] do in the last 12 months?

Question 16: What work were you doing for the past 12 months?
This question is to know what economic activities were done in the past 12 months. If the Census is done in August, then past 12-month [period] starts from the night before Census day and goes back 12 months.
It may happen that the person being interviewed did several jobs for short periods. Then all the works should be combined together, and the respondent should be considered as having worked the full time - as long as these are economic activities.
The respondent with permanent employment will be recognized as if he/she worked for the entire period even if he/she is on any type of leave and is expecting to go back to work after the leave.
Codes "01" and "02" is for those who work for any kind of payment, be it money or any other payment according to the work done.
The respondent who do economic activities without payment, such as gathering firewood, fetching water, building his/her own house, helping in family business, and other activities of that type, use code "03" and"04" according to the answer given.
Codes "05" and "06" are to be used for people who are self employed, such as business people, farmers, etc. The respondent that did not do any economic activities but were searching for a job or ready to work at any time will be included in codes "07" and "08" according to the answer given. Remember that, the respondents that are not doing any economic activities might be ready to do economic activities if available.
For example, a woman who does housework that is non-economic may be ready do the work of selling bans if she gets the [starting] capital.
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Codes "09" to "11" involve those people who did not do any economic activities and were not ready to do any or did not do any work.
Code "09" is for those who did not do any economic activity. However, not every student is kept in this code. Students who do economic activities in their household receive codes "01" to "06" according to the answers given. They shouldn't be given code "09" as full time students.
For example, a student who goes to school but sell his own groundnuts after school should be included in code "06" and not code "09". If he/she is employed to sell groundnuts after school, then he/she should be included in code "02" and not code "09", etc.
Students who are on technical training will be considered as if they worked, and the codes used are between "01" and ''06" depending on the answers given. Code "10" is for those people who are doing housework that is non-economic such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. The respondents who do these activities for payment should not be included in this code. They are included in code "01" and "02" depending on the answers given. Code "11" is for people who did not do any economic activity because of old age, sickness, disability and other reasons of that kind. For all children age 5 and older and not full-time students, but are not doing any economic activities, shade code "11". The disabled, old people, sick, etc., who are able to do economic activities should not be included in this code unless they are not doing any economic activity.
Codes used in question 16 and 17 are as follows:
Working status