66. How many jobs do you have?

This section of the questionnaire will be carried out only for people age 14 or older.

This collection of questions intends to investigate not only the current occupational status of a person, but also the basic characteristics of the employed, unemployed, and inactive.

The concepts and criteria to determine the occupational status of the population are those recommended by the International Office of Work (OIT), recognized by the different social actors of the country.

Who are the employed? They are all those who worked for at least an hour the week previous to the survey or that didn't work because of vacations, a sickness or accident, work conflict, or job interruption because of bad weather, or lack of raw materials, but he has employment to which it is sure he will return.

66. How many jobs do you have?

Work or jobs are considered different when carried out in different producing entities (that is to say for different employers).

Let's note some examples: a teacher who offers classes in two public high schools, only has one job, since both are carried out for the same employer (Board of Secondary Education). On the other hand if another teacher offers classes in two high schools but one is public and the other private, then he does indeed have two jobs since he carries them out for different employers.

The situations described above, of working for more than one employer, shouldn't be applied in any case to the free-lance workers, since their labor relationship is with themselves (each one of them constitutes a company or producing entity).

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Attending to the criteria noted and in accordance with the response of the interviewee, the quantity of jobs that he has will be noted in the corresponding boxes.