Class of worker of experienced labour force person
Status: This standard was approved as a departmental standard on April 20, 2015.
Definition
Class of worker refers to whether a person is an employee or is self-employed. The self-employed include persons with or without a business, as well as unpaid family workers.
Experienced labour force person refers to persons 15 years and over currently in the labour force who are employed or who were employed at some point during a long reference period such as a year or more.
Usage
Class of worker applies to a specific job.
For the Census of Population, the specific job is usually the job the person held in the reference week. However, if the person did not work during that week but had worked at some time since January 1 of the prior year, the information relates to the job held longest during that period. Persons with two or more jobs were to report the information for the job at which they worked the most hours.
Conformity to relevant internationally recognized standards
There are two different international perspectives on the treatment of working owners of incorporated businesses. The definitions of 'employee' and 'self-employed' used in this standard follow from the perspective of the International Labour Organization (ILO). In this perspective, working owners of incorporated businesses are treated as self-employed.
The other perspective is found in the System of National Accounts (SNA). In this perspective, working owners of incorporated businesses are considered to hold 'employee jobs' since they work for the corporation.
The inclusion of unpaid family workers with the self-employed is compatible with the standards of the ILO as well as that of the SNA.
Sources:
International Labour Office, Ralf Hussmanns, Farhad Mehran, and Vijay Verma, "Surveys of economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment: An ILO manual on concepts and methods" (Geneva, 1990).
European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations and World Bank, System of National Accounts 2008 (New York, 2009).
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Division, United Nations, "Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses", Revision 3 (New York, 2017).
Classifications
- Classification of Class of Worker December 03, 2020 to current
- Classification of class of worker - variant on employees and self-employed December 03, 2020 to current
- Variant of class of worker - Detail on the Self Employed April 20, 2015 to December 02, 2020
- Classification of Class of Worker June 21, 2010 to December 02, 2020
Additional information
See:
- Classification of Labour Force Status
- Class of worker of employed person
- Class of worker of person with recent work experience
Relation to previous version
- Class of worker of experienced labour force person April 20, 2015 to current
December 3, 2020 - The name of the classification variant has been changed and several categories have been added.
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