Interviewer instructions
<svar v="NI05A408"><span class="h3">Definitions:</span><br /><br /><span class="em">Indigenous people/ethnic community</span><br />This is a group of persons who maintain historic continuity with their indigenous background and who still share traditions and their own cultural values.<br /><br />Territorially, indigenous peoples extend to the Pacific and the north-central border of the country with the exception of the Caribbean coast, where the majority of the Indian peoples who are descended from the Myuangnas-Sumus, Miskitus, Ramas and Garifunas and who still maintain their own language have settled. In this part of the territory there are also settlements of ethnic communities like the English- and Spanish-speaking Creoles and Mestizos (mixed European and indigenous).<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="NI05A408"><span class="em">Question 6. Does [the person] consider him or herself a member of an indigenous people or an ethnic community?</span><br /><br />The importance of this question is to allow each person to self-identify with an indigenous group or specific ethnicity. Ask the question of every person in the household, regardless of what you may observe or believe.<br /><br />Mark an "X" next to the alternative stated by the informant.<br /><br />If the answer is "No", go to question 9.<br /></svar>
