The DARE Questionnaire, 1965–1970

The full text of the DARE questionnaire is in the PDF. [DOWNLOAD PDF HERE.] The questions are divided into 41 categories, each with a heading broadly describing the general topics covered in that section. Fieldworkers were instructed to ask each question as it is written here, so that the responses would be comparable. (Parenthetic instructions to the Fieldworkers, however, were not read aloud.)

Some changes were made after the first 75 Questionnaires had been completed. (The Informants who responded to this early version of the Questionnaire are identified in the Informant List in Volume I of DARE.) In the later Questionnaires, the questions of section OO (“Verb Forms”) were dispersed so that they would be asked in appropriate places among the other questions, thus avoiding the impression of a grammar test. In the following list they are retained in alphanumeric order. Some 200 questions that proved to be relatively unproductive were removed; these questions are identified below with a minus sign (-) in the left-hand column (and in the DARE entries with the phrase “total Infs questioned, 75” after the question text). A few questions were added; these questions are identified with a plus sign (+) in the left-hand column (and in DARE entries with the phrase “not asked in early QRs”). A few other questions were rephrased. The list below does not give a detailed collation of the two versions, but in cases where the differences could be significant, the questions are marked with an asterisk (*) in the left-hand column, and the early questionnaire version is given in square brackets.