The questionnaire for the Hout Bay Migration Survey 2005 included five sections:
• Section one on household services covered housing, water, sanitation, energy and household durables.
• Section two covered relationship to household head, spouse, parents and educational achievement, temporary absence, marital status and religion.
• Section three was subdivided into six sub-sections:
o The first covered nationality and country and province of birth.
o The second covered name of nearest town (but international migrants were excluded) type of area by homeland, and main reason for emigrating.
o The third covered first date of departure and first destination and stages before first arrival in Cape Town, date of first arrival in Hout Bay and reason for choosing Hout Bay.
o The fourth covered attachment to place of birth and frequency of return visits.
o The fifth covered remittances.
o The sixth covered permanency of settlement in Hout Bay.
• Section four covered employment status and wage employment, self-employment, unemployment and frequency of job search.
• Section five contained the household roster flap listing the number of persons in the household, their ages, gender and school-going by children and juveniles aged 6-21 years.
