Interviewer instructions
6.5 Block V. General characteristics of household members
This block is used to record personal characteristics such as sex, age, mobility of living, attained education, school participation and the daily language used by each household members, starting from the first serial number of the household member until the last one.
Block V is asked to all household members
In order to fill in this block, the enumerator should try to directly interview the respondent.
Question 504: Date, month and year of birth
Ask the date, month, and year of birth of the respondent and fill into the provided boxes. If the respondent only knows the year and month of birth, write it into the provided places and put a dash on the provided line, leaving the answer box empty for date. If the respondent only knows the year of birth, the other two are crossed out and their answer boxes are empty. If the respondent does not know the year of birth, it has to be written based on the year written in P304.
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If the respondent knows the date, month and year of birth based on the Islam, Java or Sundanese calendars, write the information completely in the empty part of Block V. Use the Age Conversion Guide (Book 4) to change the information on the date, month and year to the Roman calendar.
