Classification of worker - Employment type
8.2 - Self-employed
This category includes persons whose job consisted mainly of operating a business, farm or professional practice, alone or in partnership. This includes: operating a farm, whether the land is rented or owned; working on a freelance or contract basis to do a job (e.g., architects, private duty nurses); operating a direct distributorship selling and delivering products such as cosmetics, newspapers, brushes and cleaning products; and fishing with own equipment or with equipment in which the person has a share.
The business can be incorporated or unincorporated. Self-employed persons include those with and those without paid help. Also included among the self-employed are unpaid family workers. They are persons who work without pay in a business, farm or professional practice owned and operated by another family member living in the same dwelling.
Code | Title |
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8.2.1Self-employed incorporated, with paid help | Self-employed incorporated, with paid help |
8.2.2Self-employed incorporated, no paid help | Self-employed incorporated, no paid help |
8.2.3Self-employed unincorporated, with paid help | Self-employed unincorporated, with paid help |
8.2.4Self-employed unincorporated, no paid help | Self-employed unincorporated, no paid help |
8.2.5Unpaid family worker | Unpaid family worker |
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