Definition
Household Membership
The general criteria used to identify household members were:
(1) common keeping arrangements
(2) sharing of principal meals
(3) common financial arragements for supplying basic essentials for living, and
(4) recognition of one member as the head.
If a usual member of the household was absent at the time of interview but was not expected to be away for more than three months, he was counted as a member, provided his income and expenditure could be recorded.