Interviewer instructions
Recall that overseas workers are listed as members of the household only for purposes of estimating the household population of the country. However, for purposes of determining the labor force characteristics, they shall be excluded.
Column 10 is used to identify the overseas contract worker and the overseas Filipino worker among the household members. A code of “1” is to be entered if a person is an OCW, regardless of whether he is out of the country to fulfill an overseas work contract for a specific length of time of visit or on vacation but still has an existing overseas work contract. Code “2” will be entered id a person is an overseas worker other than OCW or Filipino who work abroad without any contract.
For purposes of LFS, Filipino workers who usually go out of the country through “backdoor” means will be considered as worker other than OCW not OCWs. However careful probing must be done before classifying them as worker other than OCW. He must not have any work within the Philippines, to be considered as worker other than OCWs. If he has other work within the Ohilippines aside from those outside the Philippines, then he must be code 3.
Code 4 will be entered if the overseas worker is an employee in the Philippine embassy or consulates. Code 5, if students abroad, tourists.
For OCWs, workers other than OCWs, employees in Philippine Embassies, Consulates and other missions, only the demographic characteristics should be filled up.
If code is 1,2, or 3 go to next HH member
