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Section 2 collects information about living quarters expenditures, food expenses and vehicles.
Now I am going to ask about expenditures for your living quarters, food expenses and vehicles.
Are these living quarters presently used as student housing by a college or university?
Are these quarters owned by regular ownership or as a condominium or cooperative?
In this survey, we consider a cooperative to be a property which is owned by a corporation. Each shareholder is entitled to occupy an individual unit. Is this what you mean?
(FIELD REPRESENTATIVE: If the respondent answers "No" to the probe try to determine whether the ownership is "regular" or "condominium" and mark the appropriate box.)
Are your living quarters rented for cash rent or occupied without payment of cash rent?
Do you have a mortgage on this property?
Since the first of the reference month what has been your usual WEEKLY expense at the grocery store or supermarket? [enter value] ______________
About how much of this amount was for nonfood items, such as paper products, detergents, home cleaning supplies, pet foods, and alcoholic beverages? [enter value] ______________
What was your usual WEEKLY expense at these places? [enter value] ______________
What are the names of all the people on your list who purchased meals at school? [enter text] ______________
What has been the usual weekly expense for the meals [NAME] purchased at school? [enter value] ______________
How many weeks in the past 30 days did [NAME] purchase meals? [enter text] ______________
Do you (or any of the people on your list) own an automobile, truck, or other vehicle?
Do not include any vehicle which is used entirely for business purposes.How many? [enter value] ______________
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Last Modified Date: January 13, 2009