4. Age

Question 4: age

1. How to ask the question:
Ask, "How old are you in completed years?"

The information you should get for each person is how old the person was at his or her last birthday, and not how old the person will be at his or her next birthday.

Because this is such an important question, you should do everything possible to get information that is as precise as possible. If this is not possible, get at least some approximate information so that there is always information for this category.

2. How to record the response:
Write on the appropriate line:
a) The number of completed years for persons aged one or older;
b) The digits "00" for persons aged less than one, including newborns.

3. Example:
[This box contains question 4 of the section VI "people in the census household."]