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All persons surveyed ? present residents (RP), absent residents (RA), and visitors (VI)
[Question 14 through 20 were asked of all persons.]

18. Date of birth

What is the date of your birth? If the birthdate information is complete, record it in the 8-space box: day, month, and year. If the information is not complete, it will still be recorded in the 8-space box: (month, year) or (year).

_ _ Day
_ _ Month
_ _ Year

Or

_ _ Age

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5) - What is your date of birth? or: What is your current age?
Note: With respect to the children of the head of household or the spouse of the head of household, it is also important to determine whether both parents are in the household, and whether they are married or not, in to determine where to register them.

Now you are able to record the household members and visitors on the questionnaire, and complete the answers to questions 14-18 and 19-20 for each person.

Question 18: Date of birth or age
The age of an individual is the number of years since birth. It is obtained accurately by difference of date: date of observation (day, month, year) - date of birth (day, month, year). The age of an individual is a very important variable in the sociodemographic and economic analysis of the census data.
Therefore, you must make every effort to obtain this vital information with as much accuracy as possible. Ideally, the birth date of an individual should be expressed in day/month/year format. Try to get maximum accuracy (day, month, year) whenever possible. Check the civil status documents of respondents who have them.
In order to record the response obtained, a distinction must be made among several possible scenarios:
1 - The date of birth information is complete (day, month, year).

Example: 13 February 1953: You must convert this information into digital form as follows: 13 / 02 / 53 (DD/MM/YY) or age.

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2 - The date information is not complete: We know either the month and year of birth, or the year of birth only.

- i) Example 1: April 1948, you enter the information as follows: 04 / 48 (MM/YY) or age.
- ii) Example 2: In or around 1910, you enter the information as follows: 10 (YY) or age.

3 - Date of birth information is not available, despite your best efforts; in this case, you must ask the following question: "What is your age?" Always test the plausibility of the answer provided, using simple cues such as: identification of people of the same generation whose age is relatively well known, important historical facts, etc. The answer obtained is transcribed as follows for an age of 42: 42 (age)
Note: For any person born before 1901, even if the date of birth is known, you should not record such a date of birth in the corresponding coding grid on the questionnaire. Instead, in these cases, simply write "97" in the coding grid under the "age" category.