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Write animals mentioned in booklet provided.
Enter the number of different animals mentioned.
See help <F9 for rules about what animals to include.
Rules for scoring animal naming task:
Do not count repetitions and do not count redundancies (e.g. white cow, brown cow).
Do not count named animals (e.g. Spot, Bambi, or Yogi Bear).
Do count different breeds (e.g. dog, terrier, poodle) and different gender or generation-specific names (e.g. bull, cow, steer, heifer, calf).
Each of these count as correct.
Do give the respondent the benefit of the doubt if they give the name of an animal which you have not heard of (e.g. kudu, echidna).
Each of these count as correct.
Universe
Location of units of observation: National;Population: Adults in Great Britain born in one particular week in 1958 (NCDS respondents were aged 50 at the time of NCDS8).