Any job-related income or benefitmeans any income or benefit the respondent would not be entitled to receive if they did not have a job at the moment of starting this period of absence, regardless of their employment status (employee or self-employed).
for pay or profitrefers to work carried out as part of a transaction in exchange for remuneration payable in the form of wages or salaries for time worked or work done, or in the form of profits derived from the goods and services produced through market transactions.
main variablemeans a variable with a quarterly periodicity;
minimum set of variablesmeans the variables to be collected for all household members to allow analyses both at household level and at individual level broken down by specific household characteristics;
sample of independent observationsmeans a sample where each observation unit occurs only once according to the sample design;
sample rotation schememeans the split of the total sample into sub-samples of observation units similar in size and design, used to specify the number of times and the exact reference quarters of the year for which an observation unit shall provide information in the survey;
Seasonal workrefers to a job situation where the economic activity (production of goods or provision of services) of the economic unit is completely halted for a recurring and a, more or less, specific period of the year.
structural variablemeans an annual, biennial, eight-yearly variable or a variable collected on an ad hoc subject;
wavemeans the sub-sample of observation units due to be interviewed for the same nth time according to the sample rotation scheme in a reference quarter;