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Variable
UK Data Service variable record for:
European Working Conditions Survey, 2015
Variable Details
| Variable | Q7 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Q7 - Are you working as an employee or are you self-employed? | ||||||||||||
| Question text | Are you working as an employee or are you self-employed? | ||||||||||||
| Responses |
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| Disclaimer | Please note that these frequencies are not weighted. | ||||||||||||
| Location | European Working Conditions Survey, 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Interviewer Instructions | ONE ANSWER ONLY ADD IF NECESSARY: By ‘employee’ we mean someone who gets a salary from an employer or a temporary employment agency. ‘Self-employed’ includes people who have their own business or are partners in a business as well as freelancers. A self-employed person may or may not have employees. NOTE: Respondents who work as an employee for their own business should be coded as self-employed. Members of producers’ cooperatives should also be coded as self-employed. Family workers should determine which alternative matches their situation best. | ||||||||||||
| Universe | Location of units of observation: Cross-national; National;Population: All residents of the countries mentioned above aged 15 or older (16 or older in Bulgaria, Norway, Spain and the UK) and in employment at the time of the survey. People were considered to be in employment if they had worked for pay or profit for at least an hour in the week preceding the interview (ILO definition). | ||||||||||||
| Sampling | Multi-stage stratified random sample | ||||||||||||
| Study Type | Repeated cross-sectional study; Sixth survey in the EWCS series. |
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