Form C1: Confidential

Jamaica questionnaire

Section 1: Identification
[For all persons]
Please give me the names of all the persons who usually live in this household. Please give me also the names of all other persons who spent the night of April 7, here. Please give me the name of the head of household first.

Section 2: Housing
[Head of household only]

1. Characteristics of housing unit

2.1. What type of housing unit is this?

2.2. What is the main type of material used in constructing the outer walls?

2.3. What is the main type of material used in constructing the roof?

2.4. In what year was this unit built?

2. Characteristics of household

2.5. Does this household, own, rent or lease this dwelling?

2.6. What about this land - is it owned or leased, etc.?

2.7. How many rooms does your household occupy? _ _

2.8. What is the main source of domestic water supply for the household?

2.9. (a) What type of toilet facilities does this household have?

2.10. What does this household use most for lighting?

2.11. What type of fuel does the household use most for cooking?

3. Miscellaneous

2.12. Did anyone from this household go to live abroad during 1990?

2.13. How many persons? _ _

2.14. Could you give me the age and sex of each?

2.15. Did anyone abroad come to live in this household in 1990?

2.16. How many persons? _ _

2.17. Could you give me the age and sex of each?

Section 3: Characteristics (for all persons)

Parish _ _
Constituency _ _
Special Area _ _
E.D. Number _ _ _
Housing unit number _ _ _
Dwelling number _ _
Household number _ _
Individual number _ _
Name of individual _______
Book number _ _ _ _ _ _

3.1. What is your / [the respondent's] relationship to the head of the household?

3.2 Is [the respondent] male or female?

3.3.
a. What is your / [the respondent's] date of birth?

b. Age at last birthday? _ _

3.4. To which race or ethnic group would you say you / [the respondent] belong(s)?

3.5. To which religious group do you / does [the respondent] belong?

Age:

3.6. What is your / [the respondent's] legal marital status? For example are you/is he/she married, divorced, widowed or never married?

3.7. Do you / does [the respondent] suffer from any long standing illness, disability or infirmity?

3.8. Does this limit your / [the respondent's] activities compared with most people of the same age?

3.9. What type of disability of impairment do you / does [the respondent] have?

3.10. In which of the following are you handicapped?

Section 4: Birthplace and residence
[All persons]

4.1. Do you / does [the respondent] usually live in this household? By this I mean do you / does [the respondent] reside here all or most of the time?

4.2. Where do you / does [the respondent] usually live?

4.3. Where were you / was [the respondent] born? By that I mean the place in which your/his/her mother was residing at the time.

4.4. In what year did you / did [the respondent] come to live in Jamaica? 19 _ _ (go to Question 5.1)

4.5. In what year did you / did [the respondent] come to live in this Parish? 19 _ _

4.6. In what parish did you / did [the respondent] last live?

Section 5: Education
[All persons]

Interviewer
(i) For children under 4 years, mark "No" at question 5.1 and go to question 8.1
(ii) For persons over 50 years, mark "No" at question 5.1 and proceed from question 5.2 in relation to the last institution attended.
(iii) For persons between ages 30 and 50 years, say: "It is known that some people try to further their education as they get older" before asking question 5.1.
(iv) For all other persons, i.e. 4-29 years old, proceed directly to question 5.1.

5.1. Are you / is [the respondent] currently attending an educational institution?

5.2. What type of educational institution are you / is [the respondent] attending / did you / did [the respondent] last attend?

5.3. What was the last type of institution that you / that [the respondent] attended before that?

5.4. What is/was the highest class, grade or form that you are / were in / that [the respondent] is / was in at that level?

5.5. How many years of schooling have you / has [the respondent] had? _ _

5.6 Are you / is [the respondent] attending school full-time or part-time?

5.7. What is the highest examination that you have / that [the respondent] has passed?
Mark "None" for all persons currently attending/last attended nursery/infant and primary/preparatory schools (See Question 5.2).

Section 6: Economic activity
[Persons age 14 and older]

[Go to Question 8.1 for persons younger than 14 years]

6.1. What did you / did [the respondent] do most during the first week of April? For example did you / did [the respondent] work, look for work, keep house or what?

6.2. How many hours did you / did [the respondent] work during the first week of April? _ _

6.3. Do you / does [the respondent] work for a wage, carry on your/his/her own business or what?

6.4. What kind of work do you do / does [the respondent] do / did you last do / did [the respondent] last do?

6.5. What type of business is/was carried on at the work place?

6.6. Would you consider your job / [the respondent's] job as being tourism-related?

6.7. What did you / did [the respondent] do most during the past 12 months? For example did you/did he/did she work, look for work, keep house or what?

6.8. How many months did you / did [the respondent] work?

6.9. How much do you / does [the respondent] earn from your/his/her job?

Section 7: Union status and fertility
(Female age 14 and older who are not full-time students at a primary or secondary school)

7.1. Mark the appropriate answer (see Question 3.6)

7.2. Are you / is [the respondent] currently living with your/her husband?

7.3. Have you / has [the respondent] ever lived with someone as a common-law partner?

7.4. Are you / is [the respondent] currently living with someone as a common-law partner?

7.5. How long have you / has [the respondent] and your/her husband/common-law partner been married/living together? _ _

7.6. Mark the appropriate answer.

7.7. How many live-born children have you / has [the respondent] ever had? _ _

7.8. How old were you / was [the respondent] when you had your/she had her first live-born child? _ _

7.9. How old were you / was [the respondent] when you had your/she had her last live-born child? _ _

7.10. Did you / did [the respondent] have any live births in the past 12 months?

7.11. How many live births were there?

7.12. Of what sex was the child/were the children?

7.13. Is the baby / are the babies still alive?

Section 8: Where individual spent Census night
[All persons]

8.1. Where did you / did [the respondent] spend Census night?