Literal question
<svar v="NI05A427 NI05A428 NI05A429 NI05A430 NI05A431 NI05A432 NI05A433 NI05A434 NI05A435 NI05A436 NI05A437 NI05A438 NI05A439 NI05A440 NI05A441 NI05A442 NI05A456">[Questions 19-31 were asked of persons age 10 or older]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="NI05A431" v="NI05A431 NI05A456">23. If [the person] does not work, and did not look for work, what does [the person] do?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Only studies<br />[] 2 Housework<br />[] 3 Is pensioned/retired/collects rent or investment income<br />[] 4 Is permanently disabled<br />[] 5 Is elderly<br />[] 6 Other<br /><br />Continue to question 25</div><br /></svar>
Interviewer instructions
<svar v="NI05A427 NI05A428 NI05A429 NI05A430 NI05A431 NI05A432 NI05A433"><span class="h3">Definitions:</span><br /><br /><span class="em">Work</span><br />This is when a person spends at least one hour a week performing any economic activity and earns profits, wages, or a salary or another type of payment in money or in kind, or as an unpaid worker.<br /><br /><span class="em">Not work</span><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Unpaid household tasks and work on a person's own dwelling.</li>
</ul><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Unpaid volunteer work for a church, fire department or other non-profit institution.</li>
</ul><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Work done by persons who are involuntarily confined to an institution such as a jail, sanitarium, asylum, penal farm, etc.</li>
</ul><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="NI05A427 NI05A428 NI05A429 NI05A430 NI05A431 NI05A432 NI05A433 NI05A434 NI05A435 NI05A436 NI05A437 NI05A438 NI05A439 NI05A440 NI05A441 NI05A442"><span class="h2">For persons age 10 or older (Questions 19-31)</span><br /></svar></p>
<p><svar v="NI05A431"><span class="h2">Economically inactive population (PEI)</span><br /><br /><span class="h3">Definitions:</span><br /><br /><span class="em">Studies only</span><br />This is a person who did not work or look for work during the reference week because s/he was studying. If the person helped with housework in addition to studying, s/he should still be classified as a student.<br /><br /><span class="em">Housework</span><br />This is for a person who only did housework in his/her own home. This person does not receive a pension or retirement income, is not retired, and does not live off of investment income or rent earnings. This person does not have any economic activity that generates goods or services with or without payment or wages.<br /><br /><span class="em">Is receiving a pension or retirement income, is retired, or lives off of investment income or rent earnings</span><br />This is a person who regularly receives income from a pension, retirement fund, investment income, or rent earnings.<br /><br /><span class="em">Permanently disabled</span><br />This is a person with a physical or mental disability that prevents him/her from performing an economic activity.<br /><br /><span class="em">Elderly</span><br />This is a person who is not retired, receiving a pension or retirement income, and does not live off of investment income or rent earnings but who is unable to work due to advanced age.<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="NI05A431" v="NI05A431 NI05A456"><span class="em">Question 23. If [the person] does not work and did not look for work, what does [the person] do?</span><br /><br />Mark an "X" next to the option stated by the informant and go to question 25.<br /></svar>
