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1437 WEDNESDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2008
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(a) Run or do any kind of business, big or small, for
himself/herself or with one or more partners?
(b) Do any work for a wage, salary, commission or
any payment in kind (excl. domestic work)?
(c) Do any work as a domestic worker for a
wage, salary, or any payment in kind?
(d) Help unpaid in a household business of any
kind?
(e) Do any work on his/her own or the household’s
plot, farm, food garden, cattle post or kraal, or
help in growing farm produce or in looking after
animals for the household?
(f) Do any construction or major repair work on
his/her own home, plot, cattle post or business
or those of the household?
(g) Catch any fish, prawns, shells, wild animals or
other food for sale or household food?
2.2 Even though . . . did not do any of these activities
in the last seven days, does he/she have a job,
business, or other economic or farming activity that
he/she will definitely return to?
In summary then in the old LFS employment
comprised the following:
● Having worked at least for an hour in
the last seven days in either market or
nonmarket activities (Question 2.1 in
Table 1 above).
● If a person had not done any of the
activities listed in Question 2.1 in the
last seven days, then they are considered
as employed only if they have a
job, business or other economic or
farming activity that they will definitely
return to (Question 2.2 in Table 1
above).
In the new LFS employment comprises the
following:
● Having worked for at least one hour in
the previous week in market related
LFS QLFS
(a) Did you work for a wage, salary, commission or
any payment in kind (including domestic work),
even for only one hour?
(b) Did you run or do any kind of business, big or
small, for yourself or with one or more partners,
even for only one hour?
(c) Did you help without being paid in any kind of
business run by your household, even if it was
for only one hour?
2.5 In the last week, even though you did not do any
work for pay, profit or helped unpaid in a household
business, . . .
(a) Did you have a paid job that you would
definitely return to?
(b) Did you have a business that you would
definitely return to?
(c) Did you have an unpaid job in any kind of
business run by your household that you would
definitely return to?
activities (Question 2.4 in Table 1
above).
● If a person had not done any of the
activities listed in Question 2.4 in the
previous week, then they are considered
as employed only if they have a paid job
or a business that they will definitely
return to (question excludes unpaid
household members even if they say
they have a household business that
they will definitely return to).
● In the new LFS all those who were
engaged only in non market activities in
the previous week are taken through to
questions on unemployment and inactivity
and are not considered as employed.
The question on nonmarket
activities is asked in the following way
(Table 2 below):