Bangladesh

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Employment:

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1. contributing family workers at work during the reference week;
2. full- or part-time workers seeking other work;
3. part-time students working full-time;
4. paid apprentices and trainees; and
5. persons engaged in the production of goods for own final use.

1. illness or injury,
2. vacation or annual leave,
3. maternity or paternity leave,
4. parental leave,
5. educational or training leave,
6. absence without leave,
7. labour management dispute,
8. bad weather, mechanical breakdown, etc., or
9. temporary lay-off without pay.

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1. persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week but who were subject to compulsory schooling, or retired and receiving a pension, or registered as job seekers at an employment office, or receiving unemployment benefits;
2. full-time students working full- or part-time;
3. unpaid apprentices and trainees;
4. persons on indefinite lay-off without pay; and
5. persons rendering unpaid or personal services to members of their own household.

Unemployment:

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1. persons without work and available for work, who had made arrangements to start a new job on a date subsequent to the reference week;
2. persons without work and available for work, who were trying to establish their own enterprise;
3. persons without work and available for work, but not seeking work because they believe that no work is available at present;
4. persons on indefinite lay-off without pay; and
5. persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week but who were registered as job seekers at an employment office or receiving unemployment benefits.

1. persons without work who were seeking and/or available for work, but subject to compulsory schooling, or retired and receiving a pension; and
2. full- time students seeking full- or part-time work.

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