Definition
Work status was classified into 7 different categories as follows :
( 1) an employer was defined as a person who operated his or her own enterprise for profit or dividends and hired one or more persons as his or her employees.
(2) An own-account worker was a person who operated an enterprise on his or her own account or operated it jointly with others in the form of a partnership either for profit or dividends and hired no employees.
(3) A private employee was a person who worked for pay in a non - government enterprise owned and operated by an employer.
(4) A government employee was a person who worked for pay in a government agency, a government enterprise as well as an international organization.
(5) An unpaid family worker was a person who worked without pay on a farm or in a business owned or operated by the household head or other household members.
( 6) A person looking for work was a person who did not work at all during the last 52 weeks but had applied for work either at business establishments or by mailing letters of application.
(7) An economically inactive person was one of the following:
a) a housewife or person who worked around the house,
b) a student,
c) a retired person,
d) a disabled person who was unable to work because of physical or mental disability or because of chronic illness,
e) a person doing nothing who was voluntarily idle, and
f) a beggar.