Literal question
Although you did not work in the last seven days, do you have any job or business from which you were absent for leave, illness, vacation, maternity leave or any other such reason?
Interviewer instructions
These questions are concerned with any work other than housework that the respondent herself does. The time reference for Qs. 807-809 is the seven days before the interview.
Q. 809 checks to determine if a woman normally works but was temporarily absent from work,
i.e., she was on leave or was not working for some other reason during the seven-day period before the survey.
