Government reports that the 2010 census has so far managed to collect data on less than 30% of households, saying that many residents are hesitant to answer the census questions.
It’s no surprise: this year’s Bermuda census includes a whopping list of sensitive personal questions ranging from pay levels to education to health conditions … and even branching off into weird categories such as use of alternative energy. Simply put: many people do not trust our Government to have this much detail of their lives in one place.
By comparison, the US census (also taking place this year) contains only 10 basic questions dealing with number of persons in the household, home ownership, age, race, and national origin. This encourages people to promptly submit the information – and ensures that Government can quickly tabulate it.
UPDATE The list of questi0ns from the Bermuda census follows.
2010 Bermuda Census
1. Personal characteristics
(a) How are you related to the household reference person?
(b) Are you male or female?
(c) What is your date of birth?
(d) What is your age?
(e) To which racial group do you belong?
(f) In your opinion, how would you best describe your ancestry?
(g) What is your religious affiliation?
2. Marital status
(a) What is your marital status?
(b) How old were you when you got married the first time?
(c) How long have you been married to your present spouse as of census day?
(d) Are you married to a Bermudian?
3. Birthplace In which country were you born?
4. International migration
(a) When did you last come to Bermuda to live?
(b) Have you ever lived abroad for 1 year or more continuously, other than for educational or health purposes?
(c) When did you last return to Bermuda to live?
5. Internal migration
(a) In the past 12 months, how many times have you moved residence within Bermuda?
(b) What was the primary reason for your last move?
(c) What was your last parish of residence?
(d) In the past 5 years, how many times have you moved residence within Bermuda?
6. Bermudian status
(a) What is your current status – Bermudian, non-Bermudian, non-Bermudian permanent resident certificate holder, non-Bermudian spouse of Bermudian, other non-Bermudian?
(b) How did you acquire this status – birth, marriage, domicile under 1937 Act, grant of status?
(c) When did you acquire this status?
7. Childcare
(a) How is your child cared for during working hours – by you or your spouse/partner in your home; a child care provider in your home; in another home with no more than 2 other children; in another home with no more than 3 or 4 other children; in another home with 5 or more other children; in a public nursery, day care centre or preschool; in a private nursery, day care centre or preschool?
(b) How much do you spend on childcare per week?
8. Fertility
(a) How many live-born children have you had/fathered?
(b) How old were you at the birth of your first live-born child?
(c) How old were you at the birth of your last live-born child?
(d) How many babies were born alive during the past 12 months to women 15 to 49 years?
9. Health
(a) Which of the following conditions have lasted more than six months – no conditions present; arthritis/ rheumatism; heart condition; HBP/hypertension; diabetes – Type I; diabetes – Type II; no/limited use of leg(s); back/spine problem; asthma; other respiratory/lung problem; mental/emotional disorder; no/limited use of arm(s); cancer; stomach, kidney, liver; senility/Alzheimer’s; muscular disease; learning disability; epilepsy; learning difficulty; hearing difficulty; complete deafness; speaking difficulty; gripping/holding difficulty; seeing difficulty; seeing difficulty with lenses; complete blindness; behavioural difficulty; moving/mobility difficulty; body movement difficulty; drug dependency; alcohol dependency; pervasive development autism; sickle cell; lupus; other condition?
(b) Does your condition—
(i) limit or prevent any of your everyday life activities, for example, work, recreation, mobility, schooling?
(ii) limit the kind/amount of activity at home/school?
(iii) prevent you from leaving home alone?
(iv) prevent you from taking care of your own person?
(v) generally confine you to getting around in a wheel chair?
(c) Do you receive any hired nursing care for your condition(s)?
(d) Do you receive any hired rehabilitation services for your condition(s)?
(e) Do you regularly take doctor-prescribed medication on a daily, weekly or monthly basis?
(f) Do you have difficulty with self care, such as bathing or dressing?
(g) Using your primary language, do you have difficulty communicating, for example understanding or being understood?
(h) What type of health insurance coverage, if any, do you have – major medical, basic, FutureCare Plan, Health Insurance Plan (HIP), none?
10. Education and Training
(a) Excluding community centre courses or recreational courses, are you presently attending or registered in a school or any educational institution?
(b) Are these classes taught – in class, online, combination of in class and online?
(c) Do you attend full time or part time?
(d) Is this school or educational institution public or private?
(e) Is this school or educational institution in – Bermuda, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Caribbean, other?
(f) What type of school or educational institution are you attending or registered in – primary (years 1-6); middle school (years 7-9); senior school (years 10-13); technical/vocational college; college (2 year); university/college (4 year); other?
(g) What is the name of this school?
(h) What is your programme of study?
(i) What is the highest level of schooling that you have received up to the present time?
(j) What is the highest academic qualification that you have obtained up to the present time?
(k) What is the title of your degree?
(l) Were you ever trained formally, i.e. in a certified training programme, or are you being trained formally for a particular occupation, profession or trade?
(m) What is the occupation, profession or trade for which you were/are being trained?
(n) What is the present status of your training, is it complete, not complete or ongoing?
(o) What year do you expect to complete your training?
11. Journey to Work or School
(a) How do you usually travel to your main place of work or school?
(b) Where do you usually report for work in your main job or school?
(c) How long does it usually take to get there?
(d) What time do you have to start work in your main job or school?
12. Economic Activity
(a) How many months, if any, did you work for pay in Bermuda during the past 12 months, either for an employer or for your own business? (Include any time off for paid holidays, sick leave and unpaid work in a family business.)
(b) What were you doing during the week of the 13th to 19th May 2010 – were you working, or not working?
(c) How many jobs did you report to during the week of the 13th to 19th May 2010?
(d) How many paid jobs were you employed in during the week of the 13th to 19th May 2010 (whether you were at work or not)?
(e) How many hours do you normally work in your main job in a typical week, including overtime (whether you are paid for it or not)?
(f) Excluding your main job, how many paid hours do you normally work in your other job(s) in a typical week?
(g) Were you self employed or working for someone else in your main job during the week of the 13th to 19th May 2010?
(h) What is the name of the company or business in which you are employed in your main job? If self employed, what is the trading name of the enterprise?
(i) What kind of business or activity is mainly carried on at your main place of work?
(j) What is your occupation, profession or trade in your main job?
13. Income – Persons 12 years of age and over
(a) During the 12 months ending 20th May 2010, did you receive income from wages, salaries, tips or self employment?
(b) What is the gross income range you received from your main job – include tips, bonuses and commissions before deductions. If self employed report your net earnings from operations.
(c) During the 12 months ending 20th May 2010, did you receive income from other jobs?
(d) What is the gross income range you received from other jobs in the last 12 months?
(e) During the 12 months ending 20th May 2010, did you receive any income from pensions?
(f) What is your pension income range for the 12 months ending 20th May 2010? (Include pension income from all sources).
(g) During the past 12 months ending 20th May 2010, did you receive any income in the form of rents from owned property?
(h) What were the gross earnings you received from the renting of owned property? (Include any receipts from subletting).
(i) During the past 12 months ending 20th May 2010, did you receive regular social or financial assistance payments from government or private sources?
(j) What was your income range of your regular financial assistance payments?
(k) During the past 12 months ending 20th May 2010, did you receive regular income from any other sources, such as alimony or child support?
(l) What was the total income you received from these other sources?
14. Where Spent Census Night
(a) Were you in Bermuda or abroad on census night
SCHEDULE 2 (regulation 4)
1. Household Listing
(a) Including yourself, how many persons were living in this household or staying here on census day? (Include babies, household members who were temporarily in the hospital, overseas for vacation, study, or other purposes, as well as visitors and borders).
(b) What are the names of each of these persons? State whether they usually live in this household, or if they live elsewhere in Bermuda or overseas. For those persons that usually live in this household, state how each are related to the household reference person and what their marital status is.
2. Family Listing
(a) How many persons are in this Family?
What are their names, ages, and relationship to household reference person?
(b) How many persons make up Family #2?
What are their names, ages, and relationship to household reference person?
(c) How many persons make up Family #3?
What are their names, ages, and relationship to household reference person?
(d) How many persons make up Family #4?
What are their names, ages, and relationship to household reference person?
(e) How many persons make up Family #5?
What are their names, ages, and relationship to household reference person?
(f) How many persons make up Family #6?
What are their names, ages, and relationship to household reference person?
3. Dwelling Characteristics
(a) How would you describe the type of building that your household occupies – cottage, 2 apartments, 3 apartments, 4-6 apartments, 7+ apartments, residential/attached to commercial property, attached to group dwelling, group dwelling, non-sheltered dwelling, other?
(b) Is this dwelling unit part of a condominium development?
(c) In what year did you move into the dwelling unit?
(d) How many rooms does your dwelling unit contain, excluding bathrooms, hallways, open patios and garages?
(e) How many bedrooms are there, that is, how many bedrooms would be listed if this house or apartment were on the market for sale or rent?
(f) How many full bathrooms does this dwelling contain (i.e., sink, toilet and shower/bathtub)?
4. Type of Tenure
(a) Is this unit owner-occupied? Is the unit owned by you or another household member with a mortgage or loan or without a mortgage or loan?
(b) Is this unit non-owner-occupied? Is the unit rented as partly/fully furnished for cash, or rented as unfurnished for cash? Is the unit occupied without any household member paying any cash rent?
(c) What is the monthly cash payable for this dwelling unit?
(d) Is your rent subsidized by the Government, private company, private individual, or other?
(e) Is this dwelling unit under rent control?
(f) Is this dwelling unit, privately owned, publicly owned, don’t know?
(g) What is the monthly mortgage payment for this dwelling unit?
(h) Are you a first time home owner, that is, is this the first house you have owned?
(i) If this house were for sale now, how much do you think it would sell for?
(j) Including yourself, how many members of your household own a house or other kind of dwelling unit elsewhere in Bermuda?
(k) In the past ten years, how many members of this household have moved abroad to live?
5. Technology and Environment
(a) How many desk-top computers does this dwelling unit contain?
(b) How many lap-top computers does this dwelling unit contain?
(c) What type of internet connection does this dwelling unit use – Dial-up, DSL, wireless, broad band link (cable internet), or no internet at dwelling?
(d) Apart from the electricity supplied to this dwelling by BELCO, does this dwelling use any other sources of energy – i.e. solar panels/wind turbine? (Do not include generators for emergency power.)
(e) Apart from stored tank water, what other sources of water does this dwelling utilize – none, piped water, fresh water well, salt water well, brackish water well, reverse osmosis, other?
(f) Does this dwelling unit recycle tin, glass or aluminium on a regular basis?
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