Provides a roster to identify all members of the household (customizable to fit the national context), assigns them a unique identifier, and captures essential demographic and social characteristics. This includes: relationship to the reference person, sex, date of birth, age, marital status, highest level of education completed, field of education, current school enrolment and participation in training outside the formal education system.

Captures basic international migration characteristics including country of birth, date of most recent arrival to the country, reason for move, and country of citizenship. It supports disaggregation of labour force data by native- and foreign-born status, nationals and foreigners, recent and long-term migrants. It can also support disaggregation of the foreign-born population by country/region of origin, and by main reason for migration.

Covers the six essential questions to capture disability status as a background characteristic. It captures the degree of difficulty with six core functional domains (seeing, hearing, walking, cognition, self-care and communication). Supports disaggregation of labour force data by disability status.

Covers basic information on sources of household livelihood. It identifies all sources of household livelihood in the 12 months preceding the interview date, and the main source as self-declared. It distinguishes between income from employment and other sources of household income, including remittances, transfers, and own-use production of foodstuff.

Covers basic information on household agriculture and fishing activities, regardless of whether or not the household owns land or related equipment. Basic information captured includes: household participation in farming, animal husbandry or fishing activities on an independent basis, main intended destination of the production at the household level, identification of household members engaged in the household agriculture or fishing activities and participation of household members in decision-making regarding the household agriculture or fishing activities.

Start of the personal interview on work-related characteristics. Facilitates identification of working-age respondents for the personal interview (customizable to fit the national context) and records essential information for field monitoring and data quality evaluation, in particular: the type of respondent (direct or proxy) answering to the questions on labour market characteristics, the characteristics of proxy respondents, and the start time of the personal interview.

Identifies persons employed at work and persons employed not at work in the short reference period. It includes recovery questions for persons employed in small or casual jobs, and for persons helping without pay in a family-run business. For employed persons not at work, it captures the reason for absence, duration of absence and continued receipt of pay during the absence.

Includes additional recovery questions for persons working in agriculture or fishing, establishes the main intended destination of the products to distinguish between employment and own-use production of foodstuff from agriculture or fishing. Essential as part of the identification of own-use producers of foodstuff.

Core

Identifies multiple job-holders and captures core characteristics of the current main job as needed to describe the structure of the labour market and the employed population. This includes occupation, status in employment as self-declared, institutional sector of employment, branch of economic activity (industry), size of establishment, type of work place, and basic contract characteristics of employees including type and duration of contract.

Captures three essential characteristics of second jobs: occupation, industry and status in employment as self-declared.

Captures two essential measures of working time separately for the main, second and other jobs: actual hours worked in the reference week and hours usually worked per week. In addition, it captures job search among the employed, and identifies persons in time-related underemployment, by including questions on desire and availability to work more hours, and number of additional hours available to work.

Identifies the unemployed and potential labour force through questions on job search in the 4 weeks before the interview date, main method of job search, additional job search method for those reporting a passive method, desire to work, and availability to start employment in the week previous to the interview date or in the two weeks after. It also captures duration of job search to identify persons in long-term unemployment, as well as job search in the past 12 months for those not currently seeking employment. It enables identification of future starters and discouraged job seekers, and captures the main reason for not seeking employment and current main activity for those outside the labour force.

Captures participation and time-spent in crop farming, animal farming, fishing, hunting, gathering wild food-stuff and processing of foodstuff for preservation or storage when intended mainly for final consumption by the household or family. The questions are fully adaptable to fit the national context. Part of the identification of own-use producers of foodstuff. Together with employment and job search information, it supports gender analysis of work and labour market patterns, and serves as input for estimation of labour input into national accounts.

Captures participation and time-spent in own-dwelling construction or renovation in the reference week.

Captures participation and time-spent making household goods in the reference week.

Captures participation and time-spent fetching water in the reference week.

Captures participation and time-spent collecting firewood in the reference week.