Profit/loss from unincorporated enterprises. The income is recorded gross of social insurance contributions (but net of expenses).
Universe
All households
Source of information
Data Dictionary & Questionnaire/Codebook
Imputation and derivation
Derivation
Aggregate computed by ERF (Ref: Data dictionary.pdf)
Others
Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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Self-employment income is often collected with a different reference period than other more regular incomes; for example, it could refer to the last financial year for which business accounts for the purposes of taxation were prepared.
Includes imputed income from owner occupied dwellings and own produced food for home consumption
If farm and non-farm self-employment income are not supplied separately, users can try to split them at the individual level
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Five cases reported negative income ranging between 2 and 1000 Dinar in employer and self employed income (q909) .
Employers and self employed can have negative income if they experienced a loss in their business though it is not commonly known in such surveys to report negative income; however for those cases the total income is positively reported.