Literal question
For person 11 years and older or those who were born before and in the year 1968.
For ever-married women.
[Questions L22-L25 were asked of women age 11 and over who have ever been married.]
L23. Number of children who have ever been born living in this household_ _
L24. Number of children who have ever been born living elsewhere _ _
Interviewer instructions
3.21 Children Ever Born:
The children who live at birth even though the children have lived at a single moment after birth.
For infants who are not breathing at birth is classified as death before delivery and are not counted as children ever born.
Number of children ever born means the children who live at the delivery, and still living, or surviving until the time of census.
Number of children ever born excludes:
a) Children who are not breathing at birth or dead before delivery.
b) Aborted
c) Step son/daughter or foster son/daughter of the women.
Columns 22 ? 29
Ask those who are 11 years old and over, or who were born before or in 1968 (Monkey year)
Columns 22 ? 25
Ask only ever married women
Columns 23 -25 Children ever born (as at 0.00 hour of April 1, 1980)
Column 23 Number of children ever born in this household
Ask ever married women ?Let me know, [person's name], how many of your children ever born??
Record the number of children ever born who are living in the household corresponding to the line of the women being asked.
If the woman has not any child ever born at all, record ?00? in _ _ corresponding to the line of the woman.
Column 24 Number of children ever born who live in other places
Ask ?How many of your children ever born who live in other places??
Record number of children ever born who live in other places in _ _ corresponding to the line of the woman in this column.
If the women have no children ever born who live in _ _ other places, record ?00? in corresponding to the line of the woman.
Column 25 Number of children ever born who had died
Ask ?How many of your children ever born who had died??
Record number of children ever born who had died in _ _ corresponding to the line of the woman in this column.
If the women have no children ever born who had died, record ?00? in corresponding to the line of the woman in this column.
In case of married women without children, record ?00? in Columns 23, 24, and 25, all three columns.