Interviewer instructions
3.6 Private Household
A Private Household will often be comprised of a father, mother and children living together.
Many other arrangements will, however, be encountered and further
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guidance can be obtained from the following:
(i) All lodgers, domestic helpers, farm hands and other employees who live in the dwelling and consider it their usual place of residence should be included as members of the household.
(ii) If an individual sleeps in the same structure as the main household and shares at least one meal per day with the household, include him as a household member.
(iii) A domestic employee who sleeps in the house or in an outbuilding on the premises is to be listed as a member of the household if he or she sleeps there on an average of at least four nights per week and shares at least one meal daily. If the helper's partner or children live on the premises, all members of this family are to be included with the main household if they share meals with the main household. If there are separate arrangements for cooking they should be considered as a separate household.
(iv) In the case of a tenement yard where there is a series of rooms rented to different persons by the landlord, each person or group of persons who live and share meals together is regarded as a separate household. A household in this special context may share external bathroom, toilet or even kitchen facilities with other similar households.
3.7 Non-Private Household
Non-private Households are comprised of persons who live collectively in institutions or other such organizations.
3.8 Private Dwelling
Private Dwellings are those in which private households reside. Examples are single houses, flats, apartments, part of commercial buildings, and boarding houses catering for less than six boarders.
3.9 Non-private Dwelling/Group Dwelling/Institutions
Non-private Dwelling or Group Dwellings are defined as living quarters in which the occupants live collectively for disciplinary, health, educational, religious, military, work or other reasons. Living collectively means that they usually eat common meals and share common domestic services.
Such quarters are found most frequently in home for the military, orphanages, prisons and reformatories, sanatoria, religious cloisters, convent, monasteries, school dormitories, hotels and guests houses.
