Mention any four characteristics of Self-employment
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Answer:Self-Employment Characteristics
Rounds 1-3: Respondents age 16 or older who usually earned $200 or more per week at a freelance job were considered to be self-employed. The survey asked these respondents to report the industry of their job, their occupation, and their usual activities. The most common time of day they worked and the number of people who worked for them in that self-employment job were also collected. If the job ended, respondents stated the reason (e.g., end of seasonal work, quit to return to school, quit to take another job).
Rounds 4-5: The structure of the questionnaire changed for rounds 4 and 5, depending on the respondent's age. Those who were born in 1980-82 for round 4 (1980-83 for round 5) had mostly reached age 18 by the start of the fielding period. This group reported any self-employment (regardless of earnings) along with regular employee jobs and was skipped past the freelance section. Characteristic data for self-employment is like that collected for employee-type jobs, which is described throughout this section. Younger respondents born in 1983-84 for round 4 (1984 only for round 5) continued to list any self-employment (freelance jobs that met earnings criteria) in the freelance section and reported employee jobs separately, as in previous rounds. Characteristic data for these jobs is the same as that collected in rounds 1-3.
Rounds 6 and up: Since all respondents reached age 18 by round 6, they reported any self-employment (regardless of earnings) along with regular employee jobs. Characteristic data for self-employment is like that collected for employee-type jobs, which is described throughout this section. There is no longer a separate freelance section. An expanded set of questions about self employment was added in round 9 and included questions on how the business started, sole proprietorship vs. partnership, number of partners and paid employees, and health insurance coverage
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