Interviewer instructions
Question 6. What is your skin color?
With this question, we want to know the color of the skin of the persons who are enumerated, with the objective of carrying out demographic studies of the Cuban population.
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6. What is your skin color? (only one mark)
[] 1 White
[] 2 Black
[] 3 Mestizo or Mulato
For this, we will classify the color of skin in three characteristics: white, black, and mulato or mestizo.
As you can appreciate, these categories reflect the concept that the population commonly holds and will not investigate the race in the ethnic sense, but only skin color.
You should mark the corresponding box, considering the following:
- If the person is present, do not ask the question and mark the answer according to your observation.
- If the person is not present, ask about skin color of the absent person with the person who gives you the information, mentioning the three alternatives so that she can choose.
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- Despite the above, you should avoid asking the skin color of the person who is absent if it is evident, for example, if the parents are present in the interview and they belong to the same color or when all of the family if white, black, etc.
If you have any doubt, you can apply these simple rules to determine the skin color:
- White: In this group, consider those whose skin color looks white. Include those who have Asian aspects, but with dominant characteristics of white skin.
- Black: In this group, consider those who skin tone is dark caramel color or black.
- Mulato or Mestizo: You should include all of the persons who present mestizo characteristic between black and white or Asian and black, as well as Asians. Also considered here are those called mulatos, Indians, and the albinos.
