Interviewer instructions
Questions 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 on Economic characteristics should be asked of all people 12 and older.
Question 16. What was your category or position in the occupation you indicated?
After asking the question, clearly read each of the options in the order that they appear and, upon receiving a response, mark the corresponding box.
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Mark box 1 when it is an owner or active partner.
Owner. Is a person who runs their own company or business, or who practices a profession or trade and who has one or more paid employees. Ex: the owner of a factory.
Active partner. Is a person who invests by their work, or through capital and work, in a given company.
Mark box 2, own-account, if the person runs their own company or business, or practices a profession or trade on their own, but does not have paid employees. Ex: street vendor [In the rural manual: ex: a farmer who works land on their own property, a spinner, etc.]
Mark box 3, public employee or wage-earner, when the person being enumerated is an official, employee, or manual laborer for the National Government, Sectional Government, or Autonomous Sector, who receives remuneration, a salary, a wage or piecework pay(pago a destajo), under appointment, contract, or a daily wage.
[This paragraph as follows in the rural manual:] Mark box 3, public employee or wage-earner, when the person being enumerated is an official, employee, or manual laborer who receives remuneration, a salary, a wage or piecework pay (pago a destajo), under appointment, contract, or a daily wage from the National Government, e.g., a sheriff ( Teniente Político), Post Office employee, etc.; Sectional Government such as Municipalities, Provincial Councils, etc; or Autonomous Sector, institutions like the National Development Bank (Banco de Fomento), etc.
Private sector employee or wage earner. Mark box 4 for an official, employee, or manual laborer who works in a private company and receives remuneration, a salary, a wage, commission, tips, piecework pay (pago a destajo) or payment in kind.
Unpaid family worker. Mark box 5 if the person being enumerated performs an unpaid occupation in the company or business of a family member during the majority of the week.
