This is the english version of the questionnaire that was used for the pre-test
of the KTAPC-project. In the field a pidgin translation was used. Pagenumbers
refer to the bottom of a page. Comment and corrections are in italics. Thanks to
Baulon Maibala, Stanley Jotham, Jack Beu, Iain Leklek and Alois Kuaso for
advice and improvements. Highly appreciated your cooperation!
UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
PROJECT: KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION AND POLITICAL
COMMUNICATION
WEST SEPIK PROVINCE
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Questionnaire
English
UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY · DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL
ANTHROPOLOGY · ELIOT COLLEGE · CANTERBURY · KENT · CT 2 7NS
Project Management: Dr. Oliver Kortendick, Dr. Christin Kocher Schmid
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Information on the Project on Knowledge Transmission and Political
Communication in the Kilimeri area
This project is carried out by the University of Kent at Canterbury,
England, with the assistance of the University of New Guinea at Port
Moresby. It is part of a large scale project designed to inform
EC decision makers on the state of development and communication in
rural areas of the tropics. Other researchers work on similar topics in
Africa and the Caribbean.
We would like to interview every adult person in this area with the help
of a standardised questionnaire. The questionnaire includes questions
about kinship, contacts maintained and goods exchanged as well as about
wage income and subsistence activities. Other questions aim at knowing
better the feelings of rural populations concerning self-determination.
This project is not commercial, only our expenses will be paid.
Everything which is told to us will be kept confidential and the data is
not delivered to a third party. The overall aim of the project is to get
a better understanding of rural peoples' attitudes towards development,
environment and change in progress.
We would be very happy about your co-operation. However, if you do not
wish to be visited by our interviewers, we will of course accept your
decision.
Comment: Was read to every Interviewee.
Comment: Unit of Analysis was every adult. Adult being defined as people,
who were socially and economically capable of founding an own household and
taking care of themselves. Interviewer asked when it was not obvious. ("Suppose
you leave your parents. Do you think you would be able to support yourself?") People
who did not speak pidgin or were clearly confused or mentally disturbed were
left out. (n < 5)
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Q. 1 (INT.: NOTE SEX OF THE INTERVIEWEE!)
male........................ 1
female...................... 2
Q. 2 How many years do you live at__________________________ ?
(INT.: PUT DOWN THE NAME OF THE VILLAGE WHERE YOU ARE
PRESENTLY!)
YEAR: | 1 | 9 | | | (__)
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(INT.: PUT DOWN NUMBER OF YEARS!)
DK.......................... 98
NA.......................... 99
Since my birth.............. 00
Q. 3 Is this a good village? You live well here and you
feel fine?
That...
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS A-D AND THEN LET THE INTERVIEWEE
DECIDE WHAT ANSWER IS APPROPRIATE!)
A you only want to live in (INT.:
Read out name of the village
given in question 2).............. 1
B you would also feel at home in a
neighbouring village.............. 2
C you would also feel at home in any
other village in this area........ 3
D it actually does not matter where
you live.......................... 4
DK.............. 8
NA.............. 9
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Q. 4 What do the other people of the Kilimeri area think of
this village (INT.: READ OUT NAME OF THE VILLAGE
GIVEN IN QUESTION 2)
(INT.: SHOW LIST 1 HORIZONTALLY)
The happier this face looks, the better is the
reputation of (INT.: READ OUT NAME OF THE VILLAGE
GIVEN IN QUESTION 2). The sadder this face looks,
the worse is the reputation of (INT.: READ
OUT NAME OF THE VILLAGE GIVEN IN QUESTION 2)
Very Very
high 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 bad
reputation reputation (__)
DK.............. 8
NA.............. 9
Q. 5 And how do you YOURSELF value the reputation of
(INT.: READ OUT NAME OF THE VILLAGE GIVEN IN
QUESTION 2)
Please express your opinion again by pointing on
one of the faces.
(INT.: PRESENT LIST 1 HORIZONTALLY!)
Very Very
high 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 bad
reputation reputation (__)
DK.............. 8
NA.............. 9
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Q. 6 There are houses close to your house. Do you have any
relation with the people living there? I'll read out
some activities to you, which you might conduct with
these people. Please tell me how much they apply to you by
means of this picture.
(INT.: PRESENT LIST 2 HORIZONTALLY!)
Do this Never
quite 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 do
often this
Do you visit your neighbours and
are you visited by them?.......... (__)
Do you have talks with these people,
not only good morning and good
evening but you have longer
conversations with your neighbours? (__)
DK.............. 8
NA.............. 9
Q. 7 To which denomination do you belong? ____
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 3 AND THEN LET THE | |
INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!) | |
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NA.............. 9
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(INT.: READ OUT ALOUD!)
Now I like to ask you a range of different questions.
Q. 8 Some questions about marriage?
(INT.: READ OUT THE BELOW-GIVEN ANSWERS AND THEN LET
THE INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!)
Are you ...
- Single?........................... 1
- Married to somebody from this
village and you both live here?... 2
- Married to somebody from another
village?.......................... 3
- Married and your husband/wife
lives in a different village?..... 4
- Widowed and married again?........ 5
- Widowed?.......................... 6
- Divorced?......................... 7
(INT.: IN CASE OF MALE INTERVIEWEE!)
- Married with two wives?........... 8
- Married with three wives?......... 9
NA........................ 0
Q. 9 How are you? How do you feel at the moment?
(INT.: PRESENT LIST 4!)
Pick one of these faces, please.
Very Very
good 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 bad (__)
Q. 10 How many persons live in your household?
| | | PERSONS (__)
| | |
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(INT.: PUT DOWN THE NUMBER FLUSH RIGHTLY!)
NA.............. 99 12
Comment: Was put more precisely in the field: Including interviewee.
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Q. 11 How many persons of them are ...
babies |___|___| PERSONS (__)
(still breastfed)
small children, not |___|___| PERSONS (__)
yet school age
bigger children, of |___|___| PERSONS (__)
school age
beard grows, menses |___|___| PERSONS (__)
started recently
grown-ups |___|___| PERSONS (__)
NA.............. (99)
Q. 12 You yourself, in which year you were born?
YEAR: |1 | 9 | | | (__)
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(INT.: PUT DOWN YEAR OF BIRTH HERE!)
NA.............. (99)
DK.............. (89)
Q. 13 What school education have you got?
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 5 AND THEN LET THE
THE INTERVIEWEE DECIDE. ONLY PUT DOWN THE HIGHEST
SCHOOL QUALIFICATION!)
NA.............. 9
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Q. 14 Do you have an income?
YES............................... 1
NO................................ 2 17
Q. 15 What sort of income do you have?
(INT.: READ OUT THE ITEMS AND THEN LET THE INTERVIEWEE
DECIDE. MORE THAN ONE ANSWER IS POSSIBLE!)
Wage income, full time ____
| |
|____|
Additional wage income
____
| |
|____|
Previous wage income
____
| | 17
|____|
Market income
____
| |
|____|
Cash crop income
____
| |
|____|
Comment: Missing filter to question 17 was added for Item 3.
Q. 16 If you have work, where is your workplace?
In (INT.: READ OUT NAME OF THE
VILLAGE GIVEN IN QUESTION 2)...... 1
or Elsewhere......................... 2
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(INT.: PUT DOWN THE VILLAGE!)
Q. 17 Have you got own children that are grown-ups?
YES............................... 1
NO................................ 2 20
Q. 18 And how many children have you got that are
grown-ups? (__)
(INT.: PUT DOWN NUMBER OF CHILDREN!)
| |
|____|
Comment: Caused confusion. Was put more precisely in the field:
Including adopted children.
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Q. 19 (INT.: PRESENT LIST 6!)
I like to know more about your children, their age,
their education and their gender. Let us begin with
the oldest.
... How old is the oldest?
... Is the oldest male or female?
... What education has he/she got?
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 6 (EDUCATION) AND THEN
LET THE INTERVIEWEE DECIDE! ONLY PUT DOWN THE HIGHEST
SCHOOL QUALIFICATION!)
... How often do you have contact
with him/her?
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 6 (CONTACT) AND THEN LET
THE INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!)
... Are you very close to each
other, close to each other or
not close at all? Pick one of
the faces.
(INT.: PRESENT LIST 4!)
(INT.: WRITE ALL THE INFORMATION INTO THE SCHEME! SHOULD THERE BE MORE THAN ONE
GROWN-UP CHILD, CONTINUE WITH THE SECOND OLDEST AND SO ON!)
Comment: The matrix had six rows in the original questionnaire. Question
19 was skipped after the training session to shorten the interview.
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(INT.: READ OUT THE FOLLOWING TEXT:... !)
‘Finished now with this first part. Now I would like to
know about your in-laws, relatives and friend’
(INT.: READ OUT THE FIRST OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
AFTER THAT QUESTION, NOTE THE LOCAL NAME GIVEN BY THE
INTERVIEWEE IN THE SCHEDULE.
_________________________________________________________
| CAREFULLY NOTE THE NUMBER OF THE QUESTION THAT PRODUCED |
| THE NAME FOR EACH NAME GIVEN BY THE INTERVIEWEE !!! |
|_________________________________________________________|
AFTER YOU HAVE FINISHED THAT FOR THE FIRST QUESTION,
MOVE ON TO THE SECOND. COMPARE THE NAMES GIVEN BY THE
INTERVIEWEE WITH THE ONES HE GAVE IN THE FIRST
QUESTION. IF INTERVIEWEE GIVES ADDITIONAL NAMES, GO
ON IN THE SCHEDULE.
FOLLOW THAT PROCEDURE FOR EACH QUESTION.
AT THIS STAGE DO NOT ASK FOR BACKGROUND INFORMATION
OF THE PERSONS MENTIONED BUT ONLY AFTER QUESTION 31!)
Q. 20 Suppose you like to construct a fence or make firewood
or another similar task and you had no axe. Whom
would you ask to lend you one?
Q. 21 Suppose you wish to buy some soap and you do not have
the money for it, whom would you ask for this money?
Q. 22 Suppose you have to get together a large sum of money,
for instance to pay bride price or High School fees.
Whom would you ask for help?
Q. 23 In whose house would you spent the night if you were
to go to this villages? I will read out the names of
these villages?
(INT.: READ OUT VILLAGES OF LIST 7!)
Q. 24 Give me the names of the people with whom you have
contact rather frequently, as once a week or once a
month, and you meet socially?
Q. 25 If you had sorrows, e.g. you had run into troubles,
to whom would you go and talk about your sorrows?
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Q. 26 Suppose you need advice on what to do, as you do not
know whether to take on wage labour or you think of
leaving the village and go to the town, and it is not
clear to you how you want to decide, whom will you ask
for advice?
Q. 27 Suppose you are ill and you cannot move around, you
have to lie in your house. Whom would you ask to help
you, as to take care of you and fetch you food?
Q. 28 Most people from time to time do the following. They
talk about the government, e.g. they talk about what
they think of the work of the government. You,
yourself have you also done so? And with whom have you
talked like this during the last months?
Q. 29 In your opinion, who are the people that have
the biggest influence in your local council?
Q. 30 In your opinion, who are the most important
persons in that area?
INTERVIEWER:
AFTER YOU FINISHED THE PREVIOUS QUESTIONS, ASK:
Q. 31 Is there anyone else who is important to you, not
mentioned so far?
INTERVIEWER:
IF INTERVIEWEE GIVES YOU ANOTHER NAME, NOT MENTIONED
BEFORE, NOTE THAT ADDITIONAL NAME IN THE SCHEDULE.
NOTE THE QUESTION NUMBER, TOO.
Comment: A major change in procedure occured here. In the
original questionnaire the interviewer had to ask questions 20 to 31 first,
and then had to fill in the fields at the end of the questionnaire (background
information). This was an exhausting procedure. We therefore agreed on asking
questions 20 to 31, finish the rest of the questionnaire and then, at the end
of it, ask for the background information for ego's alters. Here the
procedure was changed to the following: List 4, 5, 8 and 9 were read
for the first two names generated by ego. After that ego was asked to
just apply the suitable. Only if ego had obviously not understood the
principle, the lists were read again.
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NOW ASK FOR THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION!
‘I like to know about the persons, of whom we have
talked and ask some further questions about them, e.g.
their names, schooling and other pecularities. What
you tell us about them, we will not tell anybody else,
we will conceal it well.’
INTERVIEWER:
READ OUT THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS FOR EACH NAME
MENTIONED IN THE SCHEDULE AND PUT DOWN THE ANSWERS.
A Is .... male or female?
B What is his/her Christian name?
C What is his/her Fathers name?
D What hamlet does he/she live in?
E What lineage does he/she belong to?
F What village does he/she live in?
G What education has he/she got?
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 5 AND THEN LET THE
INTERVIEWEE DECIDE. ONLY PUT DOWN THE HIGHEST
SCHOOL QUALIFICATION!)
H How often are you in touch with each other?
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 8 AND THEN LET THE
INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!)
I How close is you relationship? (INT.: PRESENT LIST 4!)
Please pick one of the faces.
K Is he/she a relative, friend or other?
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 9 AND THEN LET THE
INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!)
L How old is he/she?
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And now something different:
Q. 32a I am going to name some appliances and other things.
Please tell me if they can be found in your
household.
(INT.: READ OUT THE APPLIANCES ONE BY ONE! FOR EACH
SINGLE APPLIANCE PLEASE ASK IMMEDIATELY:...)
Q. 32b And how often do you yourself use this appliance?
Please use the list to tell it.
(INT.: READ OUT ALOUD THE POSSIBLE ANSWERS FOR EACH
LIST ITEM AND THEN LET THE INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!)
Comment: Question 32b was skipped. List of items reads in the
original: Coleman lamp, Radio, Bank account book, Bicycle, Car,
Television, Generator, Sewing machine, Kerosine stove.
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Q. 33 A lot of people in Papua New Guinea tend to vote for
one particular party over a longer period of time,
although they sometimes vote for another party.
What do you yourself do? Do you like a particular party,
so that you think it is better than the others and you
usually vote for this party only. Just say yes or no.
YES............................... 1 34
NO................................ 2 35
DN.............. 8 35
NA.............. 9 35
Q. 34 And could you please also tell me which party this
is?
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 10 AND THEN LET THE
INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!)
____
Other party, which? | |
|____|
DN.............. 8
NA.............. 9
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Q. 35 There are some things which are important for every
single person, so that this man or woman thinks that
this something has priority over other issue. Which
three things do you yourself consider to be the most
important. I will read out a list and you will tell me
what of this list (has priority for you)?
(INT.: READ OUT GIVEN ITEMS AND THEN LET THE
INTERVIEWEE DECIDE. NOT MORE THAN THREE NAMINGS!)
Comment: Read slightly different in the original, due to translation problems.
(A Earn a lot of money, B No fights, no rascals, no stealing, C No sickness and no
wounds, D Become an influential person, i.e. pass a good name on to the children,
E Make lots of friends, F Be well integrated in a denomination, G Have a lot of
rest, and not too much work, H Helping other people, I Upgrading village life,
K Living in a town).
Q. 36 If you take all your money together, that is
salaries, market money, money from cashcrops, how
much money comes together within one year.
Do not say it aloud, look at this list and just
tell me the corresponding letter.
(INT.: READ OUT ITEMS OF LIST 11 AND THEN LET THE
INTERVIEWEE DECIDE!)
____
| |
|____|
DN.............. 8
NA.............. 9
Comment: Interviewer instruction was changed to open questioning and
coding by the interviewer.
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INTERVIEWER: READ OUT THE FOLLOWING TEXT
MANY PEOPLE DO LIKE THIS. WHEN THEY VISIT ANOTHER VILLAGE AND
THEY NOTICE SOMETHING GOOD (USEFUL), E.G. A KIND OF SAGO WITHOUT
THORNS OR A KIND OF BANANA WHICH IS SOON COOKED, THEY ASK FOR SHOOTS
OR SEEDS OF THESE THINGS AND TAKE THEM TO THEIR VILLAGE AND PLANT
THEM IN THEIR GARDEN.
Q 37 You yourself, have you done like this?
Yes....... 1
NO........ 2
IF YES
Q 38 From which of these villages you have taken something
like this?
(INT: READ OUT VILLAGES OF LIST 7)
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| |
|____|
Comment: Instruction was added: Multiple answers possible.
Q 39 And you yourself, have you given others something to
plant in their gardens? Where did they bring it to?
(INT: READ OUT VILLAGES OF LIST 7!)
____
| |
|____|
Comment: Instruction was dropped. Open questioning only.
Q. 40 Now I am going to give you some statements that have
been made about this country and this government.
Please tell me whether you mostly agree or mostly
disagree with each statement. Many of these issues
are complicated, but you should not worry, do not have
to rack your brain, just listen to the statements and
say what you think about them?
Doubt about self-determination AGREE DISAGREE
1. There are few people in this world
you can trust, when you get right
down to it.
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2. What happens in life is largely a
matter of chance.
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3. If the odds are against you, it’s
impossible to come out on top.
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4. I have little influence over the
things that happen to me.
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5. I sometimes feel that I have little
control over the direction my life is
taking.
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6. Nowadays a person has to live pretty
much for today and let tomorrow take
care of itself.
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7. I’ve had more than my share of
troubles.
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8. For me one day is no different from
another.
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9. The world is too complicated for me to
understand.
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10. I regret having missed so many chances
in the past.
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11. It’s unfair to bring children into the
world with the way things look for the
future.
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12. The future is too uncertain for a
person to plan ahead.
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13. I find it difficult to be optimistic
about anything nowadays.
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14. No right or wrong ways to make money,
only easy and hard.
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Q. 41 Disillusionment with government. AGREE DISAGREE
1. Most stores are honestly run.
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2. We are slowly losing our freedom to the
government.
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3. Most politicians are more interested in
themselves than in the public.
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4. I have little confidence in the
government today.
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5. The government is run by a few people
in power.
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6. There’s little use writing to public
officials because they often aren’t
really interested.
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7. Public officials work for the people
and not just for themselves.
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8. Our local government costs the taxpayer
more than it is worth.
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9. In my opinion, this country is sick.
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Comment: Due to translation problems, some of these items
read slightly different when re-translated.
Q. 42 You yourself, have you sold forest to the logging
company?
YES.................................... 1 43a
NO..................................... 2 44
NA..................................... 9 44
Q. 43a In your opinion, did they pay enough money?
YES.................................... 1 43b
NO..................................... 2 43b
NA..................................... 9 44
Q. 43b Do you still have this money?
YES.................................... 1 45 44
NO..................................... 2 43c
NA..................................... 9 44
Comment: Wrong filter corrected.
Q. 43c What did you buy with this money?
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Q. 44 If a logging firm would ask to log your forest,
would you agree?
YES......................... 1 45
NO.......................... 2 46
DN.......................... 8 46
NA.......................... 9 46
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Q. 45 If yes on Q. 44:
All of it................... 1
Only parts.................. 2
Only single logs............ 3
NA.......................... 9
Q. 46 Do you think it is good to sell forest to a
logging company or to you think it is bad?
GOOD......................... 1
BAD.......................... 2
DN........................... 8
NA........................... 9
Q. 47 Whithin the last ten years, is there more game, less
game, or about the same?
More........................ 1
More or less the same....... 2
Less........................ 3
DN.......................... 8
NA.......................... 9
Q. 48 One cannot ask everything in such an
interview; which topics have we forgotten or
touched upon too superficially in your opinion?
TEXT:
Q. 49 We have been sitting together and talked
together, what do you think about it, did you
like it or not?
Q. 50 And now the last question: If I came back next
year, can we do this work again?
YES......................... 1
NO.......................... 2
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HELPING ME
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Follow 40 matrices like the following:
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