Questions 1 [order number] to 12 [residency status] apply to all persons to count in the household.

7. Place of birth

The place of birth is, for persons born in Benin, the department and the commune in which they are born. For persons born outside of Benin, the place of birth designates their country of birth.

Ask the following question to the counted person:
Q: "Were you born in Benin?"

If the answer is "yes," ask the following question:
Q: "In which department and in which commune were you born/was [the respondent] born?"
Write down the given response on the line corresponding to the person's registration order number.

NB: This concerns the 12 new departments.

If the person was born in Benin and knows their village/neighborhood of birth but cannot recognize the commune, ask them the following question:
Q: "To which arrondissement is your village/neighborhood attached?"

Do not write anything in the questionnaire. Note the information in your draft notebook specifying the identifiers of the household and the order number of the person and informed the team leader in order to find a potential solution together.

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If the answer is "no," the person is born outside of Benin; ask them the following question:
Q: "In which country were you born?"
Write down the given answer on the line corresponding to the person's registration order number.
NB: One must take into account changes that occurred following the current administrative division [going from 6 to 12 departments] to affect the department of birth of the counted person. Consequently, only report the current department to which the declared commune is attached.

Due to limited space reserved to that effect, use the following abbreviations for departments:

Example: for a person who declares being born in the commune of Ze [with accent on the e] in the department of the Atlantic, mark ATL/ZE on the horizontal line reserved to that effect and leave the boxes below blank [they will filled out at the office].