DEAR CITIZENS! The Department of the Bureau National Statistics of the Agency for Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Kostanay region (hereinafter referred to as the Department) conducts a monthly sample survey of the population, which will help to study the issues of employment and unemployment in Kostanay region. We guarantee that the information we receive from you will be strictly confidential and used only for statistical purposes. Your answers will provide an opportunity to have valuable information about the number of people working and unemployed, about employment problems, and ways to find work. In a consolidated form, these data will be used to prepare various programs to promote employment and social development in the regions. The choice of your family as a participant in the survey is completely random, since the households were selected mathematically, randomly from a Register in which all buildings with street names and house numbers and listed. We ask you to provide the necessary information. You will be asked a number of questions about your work during a particular week: what kind of work did you do, how many hours did you work, if not, for what reason. Your participations is very important, even if you are not currently working. The reliability of the examination results depends on your complete and detailed answers. To conduct the questionnaire, you will be visited by a specialist (interviewer) who will present the Department’s interviewer’s certificate. You can call the following contact numbers +7 7142 53 56 76 and ask your questions.