Status in Employment

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The type of employment relationship a person has, classified according to the ILO International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-18).

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Standard reference

ILO ICSE-18 (20th ICLS, 2018) (https://www.ilo.org/media/209766/download)

International Classification of Status in Employment. ICSE-18 defines 7 aggregated and 10 detailed categories organised by two dichotomies (type of authority, type of economic risk). This vocabulary enumerates six high-level values most commonly used in social-protection registries: employer, own-account worker, dependent contractor, employee, contributing family worker, cooperative member. Implementers requiring the full ICSE-18 structure should extend or refine this list.

Aligned standards

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 event service No v1 equivalent none
OpenCRVS v2 does not include a status-in-employment field or vocabulary.

Values

Code Label Standard code Definition
employee Employee A worker who holds an explicit or implicit employment contract giving them basic remuneration not directly dependent on the revenue of the employer.
employer Employer An independent worker who, on a continuous basis, engages one or more persons to work for them as employees.
own_account_worker Own-account worker An independent worker who does not engage employees on a continuous basis.
dependent_contractor Dependent contractor A worker engaged on a contractual basis to produce goods or provide services for another economic unit, who is not treated as an employee but depends on that unit for the organisation of work, access to work, or access to markets. Introduced as a distinct category in ICSE-18 to capture workers such as platform-based gig workers.
contributing_family_worker Contributing family worker A person who works without pay in an economic enterprise operated by a related person living in the same household.
cooperative_member Member of a producers' cooperative A worker who holds a self-employment job in a cooperative that produces goods or services, in which each member takes part on an equal footing in organizing production and other activities.

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