Iran, Islamic Rep. of

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Employment:

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1. Persons with a job but temporary absent for any reason, and persons on temporary lay-off without pay.
2. Full or part-time workers seeking other work during the reference period.
3. Persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week but were subject to compulsory schooling, retired and receiving a pension, or unemployment benefits, or were registered as jobseekers at an employment office or were seeking other work during the reference week.
4. Full or part-time students working full or part-time.
5. Paid apprentices and trainees, and participants in employment promotion schemes.
6. Unpaid family workers at work or temporary absent from work.
7. Seasonal workers not at work during the off-season.
8. Members of the armed forces, including volunteers and career officers, conscripts and persons engaged in civilian service equivalent to military service.

1. Unpaid apprentices and trainees.
2. Persons engaged in production of goods or services for own final use.
3. Persons doing volunteer community or social service work.
4. Persons with a job but absent without leave.

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1. Persons on indefinite lay-off without pay or on unpaid leave initiated by the employer.
2. Persons without work and current available and looking for work who had made arrangements to start a new job on a date subsequent to the reference week.
3. Persons without work and currently available and looking for work who were trying to establish their own enterprise.
4. Full or part-time students seeking full or part-time work. e) Persons who were seeking or available for work but were subject to compulsory schooling or retired and receiving a pension. Excluded are persons without work but not seeking work during the reference period.

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The second round (entitled “Survey of the population and the labour force”) was carried out by the Statistical Centre of Iran in February 1989.

The third round (entitled “Survey of household employment and unemployment characteristics”) was carried out by the Statistical Centre of Iran in February 1994.

The fourth round (also entitled “Survey of household employment and unemployment characteristics”) has been conducted by the Statistical Centre of Iran on an annual basis since December 1997. There are plans to conduct the survey twice a year. There are also plans to add survey items to the questionnaire, in particular, “income”, “citizenship”, and “type of employment”.

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