Republic of Bolivia
Population and Housing Census
1992
____ Form number
The confidentiality of the information provided is guaranteed by Law No. 14100
Citizens are required to provide census information.
Read the questions exactly as they are written and wait for the answers.
Mark the circle with an X or write the numeric or literal response as appropriate.
____ 1. Department
____ 2. Province
____ 3. Canton
____ 4. City or locality
____ 5. District
____ 6. Zone
____ 7. Sector
____ 8. Segment
____ 9. Block
____ 10. Dwelling number
____ Number
____ Floor number
____ Apartment number
12. Only for rural, dispersed area: _ _ _
12.2 Category:
[] 1 Ranch
[] 2 Agricultural estate/plantation (hacienda)
[] 3 Ex-agricultural estate (Ex-hacienda) [Communities created by the 1953 Agrarian reform in which community members have titles to small plots of land.]
[] 4 Farm
[] 5 Cooperative/union
[] 6 Colony
[] 7 Barracks
[] 8 Other (specify) ____
1. Dwelling type
[] 02 Apartment
[] 03 Separate rooms in a tenement, apartment or independent house
[] 04 Shack or hut (pahuichi)
[] 05 Place not intended for use as a dwelling
[] 06 Improvised dwelling (specify) ____
[] 08 Barracks, military or police establishment
[] 09 Hospital, sanatorium, clinic
[] 10 Prison, correctional institution
[] 11 Convent or Boarding school
[] 12 Other (specify) ____
For answers 7 through 12, skip to Chapter III, Population.
2. Occupancy status
Occupied
[] 2 With occupants absent [end of interview]
[] 4 Under construction or repair [end of interview]
[] 5 Abandoned [end of interview]
[In the case of options 2 - 5, arrows direct reader to the text:]
End of interview
Predominant materials in the dwelling
3. Walls
[] 1 Plastered adobe
[] 2 Adobe without plaster or mud-wall construction
[] 3 Brick, cement block, reinforced concrete, etc.
[] 4 Stone
[] 5 Wood
[] 6 Cane, palm, logs
[] 7 Others (specify) ____
4. Roof
[] 1 Zinc sheeting or planks
[] 2 Tiles (cement, clay, fibrocement, etc.)
[] 3 Reinforced concrete slab
[] 4 Straw, cane, palm
[] 5 Others (specify) ____
5. Floors
[] 1 Wood
[] 2 Tile or paving
[] 3 Brick
[] 4 Cement
[] 5 Earth
[] 6 Others (specify) ____
6. Water supply system for drinking and cooking
[] 1 Piped inside the dwelling
[] 2 Piped outside the dwelling but within the building, lot, or property
[] 3 Piped outside the lot or property
[] 4 Does not receive piped water
7. Water source
[] 1 Public or private system
[] 2 Well or water wheel
[] 3 River, lake, spring or stream
[] 4 Delivery vehicle
[] 5 Other (specify) ____
8. Is there a toilet, w.c., latrine or pit toilet?
Does have:
[] 2 Without flush
Only for households that have toilet facilities
[Question 8.1 was asked of persons in occupied private dwellings with toilet facilities, per Questions 1, 2 and 8.]
[] 2 Shared with other households
[Question 8.2 was asked of persons in occupied private dwellings with toilet facilities, per Questions 1, 2 and 8.]
[] 2 Septic tank
[] 3 Other (pit, surface, etc.)
9. Is there electricity?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
10. How many rooms are there in your household?
(Not including bathroom or kitchen)
____ (Number)
11. Of these, how many are used for sleeping?
____ (Number)
12. Is there a special room for cooking?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
13. Principal fuel used for cooking
[] 1 Wood
[] 2 Bird dung, manure
[] 3 Charcoal
[] 4 Kerosene
[] 5 Liquefied gas
[] 6 Electricity
[] 7 No cooking
[] 8 Other (specify) ____
14. Ownership/tenure of the dwelling
[] 1 Owned
[] 2 Rented
[] 3 Loan-backed habitation contract
[] 4 Mixed contract
[] 5 Ceded for services
[] 6 Ceded by family
[] 7 Other (specify) ____
15. How many people in this household, including children and newborn infants, receive health care at:
____ Entities of the Health Ministry (general hospitals, medical posts or clinics)?
____ Entities of medical insurance programs (Cajas de Seguro Social)?
____ Entities of non-governmental organizations or churches?
____ Private services?
____ Pharmacies?
____ Jampiri (medicine man), Yatiri, Curandero, Kallawaya, Naturista? [Forms of Indigenous and alternative traditional healers]
____ Other (specify)
____ Do not receive health care?
16. How many people in this household:
____ do not belong to any religion?
____ are Catholics?
____ are Evangelical Protestants?
____ have other religions? (specify)
17. During the last year (Jan. - Dec. 1991), did anyone who lived in this household die (including children and newborn infants)?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
_ _ Age or ages
_ _
_ _
_ _
Note: If the person deceased before reaching one year of age, write 00. If the person deceased at age 98 or older, write 98.
_ _ Age or ages
_ _
_ _
_ _
Note: If the person deceased before reaching one year of age, write 00. If the person deceased at age 98 or older, write 98.
18. How many people - including children and newborn infants - spent the night before the day of the census in this household?
____ Number of males
____ Number of females
____ Total
[Questions 1 through 23 in this section consist of a table, for the collection of information of three separate people.]
A. For all individuals - General Characteristics
1. What is the name and surname of each of the people - including children and newborn infants - who spent the night before the day of the census in this household?
[] 2 No
2. What is your relationship to the head of the household?
This and the following questions should be completed for each person in vertical fashion.
Person 1
[] 8 Member of a collective household
[] 2 Child or stepchild
[] 3 Son- or daughter-in-law
[] 4 Parents or parents-in-law
[] 5 Other relative
[] 6 Domestic employee (live-in)
[] 7 Other not related
[] 8 Member of a collective household
3. Male or female?
[] 2 Female
4. What is your age in years completed?
(Write 98 for those 98 and older)
5. What is your current marital status?
[] 2 Widowed
[] 3 Separated or divorced
[] 4 Single
6. Where do you habitually live?
____ Province
____ Locality
7. Where were you born?
____ Province
____ Locality
____ Country
(Only for those 5 years of age and older)
[Applies to question 8.]
8. Where did you habitually live 5 years ago? (1987)
____ Province
____ Locality
B. Only for those 6 years of age and older - Educational Characteristics
9. What languages and dialects are you able to speak?
[] 2 Quechua
[] 3 Aymara
[] 4 Guaraní
[] 5 Other indigenous Bolivian language
[] 6 Foreign language
10. Are you able to read and write?
[] 8 No
11. Do you attend or did you attend in the past any institution of regular schooling?
[] 2 Not attending but did attend
[] 3 Never attended [skip to Q15]
Only for those who are attending or attended regular schooling
[Applies to questions 12-14.]
12. What is the highest cycle or level of regular schooling that you attended or are attending?
[] 1 Secondary
[] 3 Intermediate
[] 4 Middle (secondary)
[] 5 Technical education
[] 6 Normal
[] 7 University
[] 8 Other (specify) ____
13. Did you complete this cycle or level?
[] 2 No
14. What is the last year or course completed in this cycle or level? If the first year was not completed, write 0.
C. Only for those 7 years of age and older - Economic characteristics
15. Of the following type of activity, which did you perform last week?
If marking one of the choices in part A, go on to question 16.
If marking one of the choices in part B, skip to question 19.
[] 1 Did not work but had a job? (leave, illness, vacation, etc.)
[] 2 Did household tasks and [also] worked?
[] 3 Looked for work having worked before (unemployed)?
[] 5 Retired, pensioner or rentier, and did not [also] work? [skip to Q19]
[] 6 Is a student and did not [also] work? [skip to Q19]
[] 7 Did household tasks and did not [also] work? [skip to Q19]
[] 8 Other? (specify) ____ [skip to Q19]
Only for those who marked one of the choices in part A in the previous question (15).
[Applies to questions 16-18.]
16. During the last week (or in your last job if unemployed), what was your principal occupation? Do not write worker or manual laborer without specifying more clearly. Write, for example: mining drill operator, automobile mechanic, grocery sales, potato grower, domestic employee, etc.
17. What does the establishment where you work (or worked if unemployed) produce or do? For example: Tin mine, shoe manufacture, Ministry of health, farm, retail sales, etc.
18. In this occupation do you work (or did you work if unemployed) as a:
[] 2 White-collar/professional employee
[] 3 Own-account worker
[] 4 Owner, partner or employer
[] 5 Member of a production cooperative
[] 6 Independent professional
[] 7 Unpaid family worker or unpaid apprentice
19. During the last week, did you do any other additional activity?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
D. Only for women 12 years of age and older
20. How many daughters and sons born alive have you had in total?
If none, write 00
Only for women who have had daughters or sons who were born alive
[Applies to questions 21-23.]
21. Of these, how many are currently alive?
22. Of those children currently alive, how many live in another country?
____ Females
23. In what month and year was your last child born alive?
_ _ Year