Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="EC01A406 EC01A407"><span class="em">Question 5.- What language do you speak?</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 5 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br />The political constitution of Ecuador, in article 1, expresses the following: Ecuador is a social democracy, sovereign, unitary, independent, democratic, pluri-cultural, and multi-ethnic; furthermore, it indicates that Spanish is the official language; Quichua, Shuar, and the other ancestral languages are for official use by indigenous peoples, in the terms that the law establishes.<br /><br />Among the ancestral languages that are used in the indigenous nations and peoples are: Cha'palaa, Awapit, Achuar, A'inagae, Wayapi, Siapede, Kichwa, Shuar Chichan, Baicoca, Tsa'fiqui, Huao Terero, Paicoca, Záparo.<br /><br />Read each one of the response alternatives verbatim and mark the answer given by the informant with an x.<br /><br />If the answer is only Spanish, mark box 1.<br /><br />If the response is only native language, mark box 2; if the informant indicates that they speak Spanish and the native language, mark box 4.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 40]</span><br /><br />For the answer options 2 (only native language) and 4 (Spanish and native language), find out what the native language is and record it in the appropriate space. Example: Cha'palaa, Awapit, Achuar, A'inagae, Wayapi, Siapede, Kichwa, Shuar Chichan, Baicoca, Tsa'fiqui, Huao Terero, Paicoca, Záparo.<br /><br />Mark box 3, only foreign language, if the informant reports that the language they speak is a Foreign Language. Example: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, etc.<br /><br />Mark box 5, other (specify), in the case that the informant reports that they speak Spanish and a foreign language. Example: Spanish-English, Spanish-Portuguese, Spanish-Italian, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">Note.- </span>In the case of boys or girls under the age of one, leave this question blank and continue on beginning with the next question.<br /></svar>
