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autonomy in production may yield contextual information to help in
determining dependent contractor status.
Additional questions for those who do not control price might include:
- Do you sell your production to one customer? If more than one, how
many customers?

- Who do you sell your production to? (Options are: Other
farmer/producer; warehouse company; distributor; retailer or other
appropriate categories)
Additional questions for those working in agriculture who receive supplies
or instructions from others and do not control price, and could be Dependent
Contractors include:
- Do you choose the specific variety of the agricultural product you grow
(e.g. variety of rice, wheat, legume)? Or does the person or entity that
provides supplies or instructions choose the variety you produce?
- Another possible question is: Do you decide how much of your land to
cultivate for [specific crop]?
Such contextual variables would enable a more accurate characterization of
dependency of own-account operators in Agriculture. A further improvement
to explore may be to split the question about “receiving supplies or
instructions from another company/agent/contractor or customer” into two
separate questions: A questions about “receiving supplies” and another about
“receiving instructions.” This may elicit further clarification on the type of
operational dependency that is relevant in different types of work activity,
particularly for comparing Non-agricultural and Agricultural work.

References
1. Carré, Françoise, Michael Frosch, Wissanee Poonsab, and Joann Vanek,
(2018). “Thailand 2017 LFS – Highlights of findings from testing of
Dependent Contractors,” August.
2. ILO Statistics, (2018). 20th ICLS Room Document 10. Testing of proposals
for a revised International Classification of Status in Employment.
Geneva, Switzerland, October 10-19.
3. 20th ICLS. (2018) Resolution Concerning Statistics on Work
Relationships. October 17. https://www.ilo.org/global/statistics-and-
databases/meetings-and-events/international-conference-of-labour-
statisticians/20/WCMS 647343/lang--en/index.htm

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