16. Mother tongue
[] 10 Romanian
_ _ Other mother tongue
Mother tongue (item 16)
63. The mother tongue represents the first language spoken usually in early childhood, on the enumerated person's family. For each recorded person on the questionnaire, the enumerator will register the mother tongue, according to the free declaration of the person.
The way of recording:
-- the mark x will be recorded on the code box 10 (Romanian) -- for the persons who declared Romanian as being their mother tongue;
-- for persons declaring other mother tongue than the Romanian - on the space provided for mother tongue will be recorded the mother tongue as it was declared, and if the person didn't want to declare the mother tongue, then the enumerator will register explicitly "non-declared";
Later, the enumerator will codify the mother tongue, according to the list of mother tongues. (paragraph 123).