Attention: This group of questions only will be completed with the people of the household in which the Question 66 is different than "0" (that is to say he/she has at least one job).

L.2 Principal occupation

All the questions of this section are referring to the principal occupation of the person interviewed, that is to say it must correspond with the answers given to the questions of the section 4.2; because of this pay attention to the agreement of the answers (for example: Branch of activity of the principal occupation and unionization of the person).

MT19. How many hours less did you work last week?

Here the number of hours fewer than the habitual hours that the interviewee worked last week will be noted.

MT20. How many hours less did you work for the following reasons?

This intends to know the time that he worked less or the different motives for which he did it.

They corresponded with holidays: last week there was a habitual holiday. In addition to national holidays, note also here the hours corresponding to the holidays for some specific activities. For example, the vacations in September for the teachers, the 23 of September for the workers of the University of the Republic, the monthly day of rest of the written press, etc.

Use of the ordinary leave/ habitual vacations: this option will be marked when the worker is making use of his ordinary leave. Ordinary leave is the right that all the salaried workers have for taking rest days. In the case of the independent worker, this option will be marked when these days have been taken for rest or vacations.

Sickness or general health (going to the doctor, dentist, maternity leave): this option is marked when the person was absent for some hours or days due to health reasons. For example, in order to take a blood test during the hours that habitually are dedicated to work; he/she didn't go one or more days because he/she found himself/herself sick; missing an entire week for being on maternity leave; using the day to get a pap smear test or donate blood, etc.

Permissions to leave and extraordinary leave (except for health): this option will be marked before whichever extraordinary leave, that has been motivated by personal reasons but not health problems. This includes absences of entire work days or of some hours of the work day. In the case of the independent worker, this option will be marked when for personal reasons he couldn't go to work excluding habitual vacations or health motives. For example, an absence for bringing a son to the doctor; leave for mourning.

Labor conflict (partial stop, strike, lockout): you will mark this option when the previous week was not worked due to a measure of decided force in the frame of a labor conflict, being of the workers or the employer.

Lack of work (this includes the temporary suspension of the salaried workers for economic reasons of for the production of the company): you will mark this option when the hourly load of the last week was less because there was not work. For example, the company is producing less than the habitual so they have reduced the work hours; the worker is unemployed for a suspension of activities; a painter or carpenter that doesn't have sufficient clients.

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Bad weather: this happens often in agricultural activities or in construction, where the climatic inclemency make the completion of determined labors impossible, also in street sales or fixed or mobile stalls in the public way where in many cases the rain makes its installation impossible.

He doesn't need to complete a fixed number of weekly hours: you will mark this option when the habitual hours correspond with an average and the week earlier had a load fewer than this average. For example, a salaried worker has a free schedule in the sense that he has to work a determined number of hours a month.

Others: This option will be utilized always with a reason not contemplated earlier, it's convenient to note what the reason is for the verification in the office that it doesn't correspond with any of the previously coded reasons.

After noting the responses obtained in this question you will continue the interview with question MT22, verifying previously that the total hours of this question coincides with that noted in the question MT19.