OPEN - ESDS

Residents employees eg, Au pair, domestics, who are metiers of the household,
should bs treated as working in the same way as any other employee.
Employment outside the United Kingdom - where the informant is or recently has been
e~loyed abroad, treat as employee. However, ha sure to record the m.mrency they
were paid in at Q. 11 etc. eg. Marks, Francs, (US) Dollars, Hong Kong Dollars, UK
Pounds, etc.
w - Church of England and non conformist ministers should be treated as
employees. Jehovahs Witnesses are treated as self-employed.
Directors - A director of a limited company is always counted as an employee. ie.
he is an employee of his company.
Occupation therapy. Informants who work at a therapy centre etc for physically or
mentally handicapped should not bs coded as employees. They should bs coded as 4,
5 or 7 depending on degree of sickness, etc. The benefit from the centre should bs
entered at Q.60 and treated as allowance from an organisation.
Self Smployed (cods 2 ) Q. l(a)
Self employed covers people who are responsible in their work only to themsel YSS
and who do not receive a wage or salary from employer. Tax is not normally
deducted at source but paid direct to Inland Rsvenue by them. (Hence directors and
managers are smployees of their companies).
It includes all people who are temporarily sick but would ha working in a
self-employed job if they were well.
Self-emplopnent can bs for any number of hours, eg as little as one hour a week as
long as job is regular.
In addition to obvious persons such as sole or part owners of a business, the
followinq are considered to be self -employed:- doctors in uri vate Dracti ce,
farmers, landlords who manage their own property, and people with recurring
freelance jobs such aa musicians or journalists.
mail order agents and baby sitters are not treated
income from this source ia picked up separately at Q
as self-employed.
as self-employed. Instead,
74 Child minders are treated
Building workers on the *lump’ should ba treated as self employed. These workers
are usually paid a wage by the contractor and hava standard rate of income tax
&ducted frornthat wage. They are bowevsr responsible for own payment of National
Insurance contributions.
Informants who are receiving the Enterprise Allowance are self-employed.
Out of Employment (codes 3 & 4) intending to work Q. l(b)
Includes people seeking work or people who have an agreemsnt to work but ha w not
yet started.
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