Definition
A Household may be either:
a) a single person household who makes provision for his own food and other essentials of living without combining with any other person and has no usual place of residence elsewhere.
b) Multi-person household, i.e. a group of two or more persons who make some common provision for food or other essentials of living and have no usual place of residence elsewhere. The persons constituting the group may pool their incomes and have a common budget to a greater or lesser extent; they may be related or unrelated or a combination of both. The general criterion to be used in identifying the members of a multi-person household relates to whether they live and eat together and have no usual place of residence elsewhere.
Note: Multi-person households may be sub-divided into three different types, although this sub-division is not used for this survey, it improves understanding of the household concept.
The three sub-groups are:
Nuclear household, defined as a household consisting entirely of a family nucleus. The family nucleus is a mother and/or father living together with or without one or more never-married children. Couples living in
consensual unions are considered married for this purpose.
Extended household, defined as a household consisting entirely of related persons. These may, but need not, include one ore more nuclear families. Composite household, defined as a household consisting of
some non-related persons, whether or not by themselves or attached to one or more (related) nuclear
families.