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Census Questionnaires, 1971
Dominion Bureau of Statistics

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Instructions for Questions 1 to 7

1. It is very important that all usual members of the household (including those temporarily away on vacation, business, at school, etc., as well as those with no home elsewhere) be listed. When entering names, follow the order shown below to ensure that all members of the same family group are enumerated together:

7. Be sure to mark "Yes" or "No" to this question, which appears at the top of page 3. If there are more than 7 persons in your household, the eighth person in your household will be entered as Person 1 on the second questionnaire with which you have been provided, the ninth person as Person 2, etc.

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H1. Mark "Owned or being bought by you" if the dwelling belongs to you, or some member(s) of the household whether it has been fully paid for or not. Mark "Rented" if you are a tenant, even if no cash rent is paid to the landlord. A dwelling which is rented with an option to buy is considered "rented" until the option is taken up.

H2. According to census definition a dwelling must be structurally separate and have a private entrance from outside or through a common hall or stairway.
If you have to go through someone else's living quarters to enter yours, you should be enumerated as part of that household.

H3. Fill the circle opposite the description which best describes your dwelling; the sketches and comments below will help you decide which circle should be filled.
[Sketches skipped. See original for details.]

H4. In the case of apartments, check with the building superintendent or janitor, if you are in doubt as to the number of units.

H5. You should included rooms occupied by servants or lodgers, and summer kitchens, recreation rooms, etc., if they are finished rooms suitable for year-round living. Remember that you do not include garage, pantries, closets or halls, or rooms used solely for business purposes.

H6. Do not include water from a hand-pump as "piped running water". If this is your only source of water, fill the circle opposite "No".

H7. An installed bath or shower is one operated from a piped water supply and equipped with a tap and drain. "Used by another household" means used in the same building. It does not mean used by another person or persons in the same dwelling.

H8. If your household does not have the use of a flush toilet inside the same building, fill the circle opposite "No".

H9. If you have no telephone, try to give a Telephone number at which you can be reached.

H10. The period in which this building was constructed refers to the completion date of the original building. If exact age of this building is not known, please make the best guess you can.

H11. Fill the circle opposite the period in which the Head of this household has continuously lived in this dwelling. If the person has moved away and back again, report the period since last move.

H12. Fill circle "Owned" if you, as Head of this household, owned your most recent previous dwelling even if it was not fully paid for. Fill circle "Rented" if you, as Head of this household, were a tenant, even if no cash rent was paid to the landlord.

H13. Include all rooms designed and furnished as bedrooms and used mainly for sleeping purposes, even though the use may be occasional, as in the case of a "spare" bedroom.
Do not include rooms used regularly, as dining-rooms, etc., during the day, but as bedrooms at night.

H16 and H17. If in doubt in the case of apartments, contact the superintendent or janitor.

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H17. Make certain that one circle is filled under each column, i.e., one under "House heating", one under "Cooking", and one under "Water heating". Show the fuel used most often. Piped gas refers to metered gas, such as natural gas distributed by a pipeline. Bottled gas refers to propane or other gas distributed in pressurized containers. Include other liquid fuels, such as kerosene under "Oil or other liquid fuel".

H18. Include station-wagons, but no panel or other trucks. Do not count cars permanently out of working order. Do not count company cars if used entirely for business purposes.

H19. A vacation home includes hunting cabins, ski chalets, summer cottages, or any other dwelling used mainly for recreational purposes on a seasonal basis only.

H20. Complete the "Yes" circle for each item found in your dwelling whether it belongs to you, a lodger or a relative who is a member of the household.

H21. See instructions for Question H1 concerning rules for "owned" and "rented".

H22 to H25. These questions are to be answered by owners only.

H22. For owners only. If you have marked your dwelling as a single house, state and the value of the entire house, including the value of the land it is on and of any other structure, such as a garage which is on your property. If you occupy a dwelling (other than a single house) within a building which you own, do not give the value of the entire building. Estimate the value of your dwelling by multiplying by 100 the amount of rent per month which you could obtain for that one dwelling.

H23. Remember that a house is mortgaged until it is fully paid for.

H24. The holder of the first mortgage is the person or organization to whom you make your mortgage payments.

H26 to H29. These questions are to be answered by tenants only.

H26. Either a "Yes" or a "No" circle must be filled for every part of this question.

H27. Report total cash rent for your dwelling, adding together the rent paid separately by different members of your household if the rent is shared. You must enter as rent the total amount of case you pay to your landlord even if this amount includes any of the facilities listed in H26 and H28. Report dollars only for this question.

H28. If payment for water, electricity, gas (piped or bottled), and fuel is included in your total cash rent, fill the circle opposite "None".
If fuel is not included in your rent, enter last year's cost of fuel for this dwelling. New tenants who do not know the additional cost of these services make the closest estimate possible.

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H29. If your rent is reduced for any of the reasons listed, or you pay no rent at all, mark the correct reason. Otherwise, be sure to mark "No reduced rent".

11. If born in Newfoundland or Labrador, fill the circle for "Nfld." Whether or not you were born before Newfoundland became a province of Canada. If you are not sure of the country of your birth because of boundary changes, print in the space provided the name of the nearest city or district of birth. If you were born in one of the six counties of Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone), fill the circle for "U.K."; if born in any of the other counties, fill the circle for "Rep. of Ireland".

12. Fill the circle for the period (or year) when you first came to live in Canada.

13. In the case of adopted children, the place of birth of the adoptive parents (that is, the persons who are presently responsible for the children) is required and not that of the natural parents.

14. Persons born in Canada are Canadian citizens unless they have lost their citizenship.
Persons born outside of Canada who have obtained Canadian citizenship papers should fill the circle for "Canada".
Persons who have not yet become Canadian citizens and have lost their former citizenship, or have no citizenship for any other reason, should write "Stateless" in the space provided above "Other, write here".
Persons who are citizens of more than one country should enter only one citizenship, preferably the last one acquired.

15. Ethnic or cultural group refers to descent (through the father's side) and should not be confused with citizenship. Canadians belong to many ethnic or cultural groups-- English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Ukrainian, Jewish, Native Indian, Negro, Chinese, Lebanese, etc.

26.
Be sure to fill one and only one of the four circles.
If you have filled the bottom circle, be sure to enter the name of your locality of residence 5 years ago and the county and province in which it is located. Where a name is used both for a parish and a town, etc., please indicate which is correct by adding the type, i.e. Granby town or Granby parish. If you were living in a suburban municipality, enter its name rather than the name of the large metropolitan area of which it forms a part, e.g., East Kildonan rather than Winnipeg.

We want to measure actual movements of population within Canada, not changes in address due only to municipality boundary changes (or name changes). Therefore, consider your residence 5 years ago in terms of present municipality boundaries.

27.
If you came to this country from abroad, do not include your arrival in Canada as a "move", but count each later move within Canada since June 1, 1966.
Students who have left their home base temporarily to attend university or to take summer employment, should not count these as moves.

28 and 29. Note that these questions refer only to persons who are now married or have been married at one time. Question 28 is to be answered by both men and women and Question 29 by women only.
28. If you have been married more than once, report only the date of your first marriage.
29. Count all babies born alive that you have ever had, whether born of this marriage or any previous marriage. Include those who died after birth and those now residing elsewhere. Do not include adopted or stepchildren. Fill the "None" circle if you never had a baby.

30. Include any service during wartime in the active military forces (Army, Navy, or Air Force) of Canada or its allies of that war. If you have had service in both World War I and World War II, be sure to fill in both the "Yes" circles.
Do not include service in the following semi-civilian organizations:

33 to 38.
If you had a job last week, answer these questions for your job last week even if you were absent from work because of temporary lay-off, illness, vacation, labour dispute, training courses, etc.
Answer the questions for the same job. If you had more than one job last week, give information for the one at which you worked the most hours.
If you had no job or business last week (with or without pay), give the information for your job of longest duration since January 1, 1970.

33. Fill the circle opposite the hours group that includes the number of hours you usually work in the job described (i.e., in your job last week or if no job last week, in your job of longest duration since January 1, 1970, whether with or without pay). Include overtime hours only if you usually work overtime. Exclude time not worked during mealtime and time spent on another job, own housework or on volunteer work. If the job described involved different hours at different periods of the year, give the usual hours for the longest period.

34. Enter the complete name of the employer for whom you worked, for example, "Canadian National Railways, Freight Office" (not CNR). In doubtful cases, give the name of the agency or person paying your wages or salary, for example, "Canadian Corps of Commissionaires". Enter your won name if self-employed without a business name.

35. Write a complete description of the business, industry, or service in which the employer, named in Question 34, is mainly engaged. Usually more than one word is required. Indicate the general nature of the business by using such terms as manufacturing, service, wholesale, retail, etc. Indicate the commodity or service by such words as paper, grocery, clothing, hospital. Some examples of complete and incomplete entries are given below:

38. If possible give the full address, e.g., 121 Main Street, Home-town, Queens County, Ontario, if the full address is not known, use one of the following suggestions:

If in the job reported you had no usual place of work, see the following instructions:
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