Literal question
18. Women, 15 years of age and over, specify
How many children have you given birth to?
Boys _ _
Girls _ _
How many children are alive?
Boys _ _
Girls _ _
How many of them live elsewhere?
Boys _ _
Girls _ _
Interviewer instructions
Question 18. For women (aged 15 and over)
The question is to be asked of women at the age of 15 years and over, both married and not married.
For persons under 15 years of age this question is usually not to be filled in. But if a woman interviewed gave birth to children, the answers to following questions should be recorded for her either.
b) How many children are surviving, of whom how many boys and how many girls?
In the reply to this question the number of children surviving at the census moment born to this woman is to be stated.
In separate boxes the number of boys and girls is to be entered.
If of the number of children born to the woman at the census moment no children survive, «?» is entered in items "b" and "c".