Employment status/position of the main job in the past one week:
Categories
Value
Category
1
Own-account worker
2
Self-employed assisted by temporary worker/unpaid worker
3
Employer assisted by permanent worker
4
Paid worker/employee
5
Unpaid worker
Sysmiss
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
If the respondent's answer is either 1, 2, 3, or 5 go to Q11, and if coded 4 go to Q10a.
Question post text
- Go to Q11 if coded = 1, 2, 3 or 5
Description
Definition
Employment status is the status of a person at the place where he/she works.
1. Own-account worker is a person who works at his/her own risk without assisted by paid or unpaid worker/laborer.
2.Self-employed assisted by a unpaid laborer or worker/ temporary laborer or worker, is a person who works at his/her own risk and assisted by temporary worker/laborer or unpaid worker/laborer.
3.Employer assisted by a permanent worker is a person who works at his/her own risk and assisted by paid permanent laborer/worker.
4. Paid worker/employee is is a person who work permanently for other people or institution/office/company and gains some money/cash or goods as wage/salary. Laborer who have no permanent employer is not categorized as a laborer/worker/employee except for agricultural laborer even they dont have permanen employer,still recognized as laborer.
5. Unpaid worker is a person who works for other people without being paid in cash nor goods.
Universe
Household members aged 10 years and over who are employed or temporarily not working