Year 1999

In 1999

In March 1999, with the collect of the population census, 235,000 women and 145,000 men over 18 years old living in private households filled out the additional Family survey questionnaire.

The 1999 Family survey demographic questionnaire has been thoroughly redesigned, and is the first addressed to men as well as women; the upper age limit has also disappeared.

The questionnaire addresses the respondents' family history, including questions on their origins, their children, and their partnership history, as well as the languages (both national and regional) customarily spoken in their families. The same information was gathered from 6,600 people living in old age institutions. It also included 1,700 male prison inmates.

It provided material for numerous studies, covering family histories in all their complexity and the linguistic diversity in the context of the dynamics of national integration of the migrants in the twentieth century.