Classification of class of worker - Type of work

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.

8.2.1 - Full-time self-employed

This category includes self-employed persons who usually worked 30 hours or more per week, at their main or only job.

8.2.2 - Part-time self-employed

This category includes self-employed persons who usually worked less than 30 hours per week, at their main or only job.