| 1. Employee (full-time/part-time/reduced hours) - Employees are defined as persons who work for a public or private employer and who receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, payment by results or payment in kind; non-conscripted members of the armed forces are also included. An employee is usually working for an outside employer, but a son or daughter, for example, who is working in a parent’s firm and receives a regular monetary wage is classified here as an employee. |
| 2. Self-employed (full-time/part-time) - Self-employed persons are defined as persons who work in their own business, professional practice or farm for the purpose of earning a profit. These persons may work with or without employees. Members of producers’ co-operatives should be considered as self-employed if in the cooperative, each member takes part on an equal footing with other members in determining the organisation of production, sales and /or other work of the establishment, the investments and the distribution of the proceeds of the establishment amongst their members. |
| 3. Unpaid family worker (full-time/part-time) - Family workers are persons who help other members of the family to run an agricultural holding or other business, provided they are not considered as employees. |
| 4. Apprentice - Student in regular education but completing his/her studies by apprenticeship foreseen in the educational programme. Includes apprentices, trainees, Junior College and University students in the summer work-phase, undergraduate trainees, and trainees with fixed contracts. |
| 5. Unemployed - This comprises all persons without employment (as specified above; either as perceived by individuals or subject to ILO guidelines) who do not fall in any other category. |
| 6. Student |
| 7. Retired |
| 8. Cannot work due to illness or disability |
| 9. Taking care of the house and/or family |
| 10. Other inactive person |