How to fill in your questionnaire
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Help with questions
This section provides guidance to help you answer the census questions.
There are two types of questions:
- questions about the household (household questions); and
- questions about the individual (individual questions)
The Household Questionnaire asks 13 questions about the household and up to 35 questions about each individual within the household.
The Individual Questionnaire asks only questions about the individual.
For each question, there are sections on:
How to answer
- Basic information about how to answer the question on paper.
Why the question is asked
- Information about how the information gathered is used.
Extra help is also available - each question has one or both of the following sections:
Help with answering
- Clarification of instructions and important guidance to help you answer correctly.
More questions?
- Q and A giving further guidance on how to answer, using particular circumstances as examples.
You can also contact us if you need more help or advice.
It is very important that you answer the questions as accurately as you can – the results are used to produce statistics that help decide how billions of pounds of taxes will be spent every year on services everyone needs, such as education, transport and healthcare.
Remember, the answers you give to the census questions will shape Scotland’s future.
List of questions
Questions about the household
H1: Who usually lives at your address
H2: Count of H1
H3: Names of who usually lives at your address
H4: Anyone else staying at your address on census night
H5: Count and detail of H4
H6: Accommodation type
H7: Whether accommodation is self-contained
H8: Number of rooms
H9: Type of central heating
H10: Tenure
H11: Tenure type
H12: Cars or vans available for use
H13: Household relationships
Questions for individual household members
1: Name
2: Sex
3: Date of birth
4: Marital status
5: Schoolchild/student
6: Term-time address
7: Country of birth
8: Month and year of entry to the UK
9: Carers
10: Usual address one year ago
11: Address of travel to work/study
12: Method of travel to work/study
13: Religion
14: National identity
15: Ethnic group
16: Language abilities in English/Gaelic/Scots
17: Spoken English ability
18: Languages other than English used at home
19: General health
20: Long-term health conditions
21: Limiting long term illness/disability
22: (Instruction)
23: Qualifications
24: Activity last week
25: Looking for paid work
26: Availability for work
27: Waiting to start a job
28: Status last week
29: Whether ever worked
30: (instruction)
31: Employed/self-employed
32: Job title
33: Job description
34: Supervisor status
35: Hours worked
36: Industry of employer/business
37: Name of organisation
38: (instruction)
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