Definition
Household members
Household members are all such persons in a household who normally live and eat together and consider the living quarter/space occupied by them as their usual place of residence. Such persons may be related or
unrelated to each other. All such persons who normally live and eat in the household past week and those who are temporarily absent for reasons such as, visiting, travelling in connection with business, admitted in
hospitals, etc (past week), shall be treated as household members.
Visitors, purely temporary boarders and lodgers, transients, servants and guests, etc. who are living in the household during the past week are considered as a household member.
In the Maldives, the (mostly male) family members working on the resort islands, where they spend most of their time, are generally are not considered as part of the household even though they share their income, which is often the principal source of income for the household.