Definition
Household: This will be the basic unit of enumeration. For the purpose of this survey, a household may be defined as:
- Single Member Household: That is, a person who lives alone and makes provision for his or her own food and other essentials.
- A Multi-Member Household: This is defined as two or more persons who combine to provide themselves with food and other essentials for living. These persons may be related or unrelated and the household may include boarders (a person sharing the housing unit and meals against payment) and servants who share food or other essentials. However, if the number of boarders exceed five then the household should be considered as an institutional unit and therefore not be included for the survey. In such cases the interviewer should inform the supervisor who will then assign a substitute household for investigation.
- A Lodger: Is a person who occupies a separate room or rooms in the housing unit and does not share meals with the host household. For purposes of this survey lodgers should be excluded from the list of members of the household.
- Housing Unit: Is defined as a structurally separate and independent place of abode. It should be noted that the occupants of a housing unit do not automatically constitute a single household and it follows that there can be two or more households with the same housing unit.
- Head of Household: For survey purposes every household must have a head. The head of the household is the person, man or woman who carries the main responsibility in the affairs of the household or the person who the members of the household regards as head.
- The spender is one of the central respondents to this survey. A spender is defined as a person 18 years of age and over or an employed person irrespective of age.
