Interviewer instructions
7. Household:
A household is an individual or a group of individuals who stayed in a house and took food from the same cooking pot in the census night they comprise a household. But, the person who stayed in a household in the census night whether took food there or not he should be enumerated in that household. There should be one or more household in housing structure/house. All these households should be enumerated separately. The members of the households may be connected by blood or law or unrelated even from the other religion. Households are classified into these three categories:
a. General household: The households which are only used for living and taking food these households are treated as general household.
b. Institutional household: Institutions like hostel, hospital, clinic, jail, barrack, orphanage should be treated as institutional households and the person stayed in these households during the census night should be enumerated as the member of the institutional households. The temporary persons staying in the hospitals and clinics should be enumerated in the census night with the help of the authority.
The working officers and staffs of the institutional households should be enumerated in their residence/quarter. Similarly, the hostel super should be enumerated in his quarter (if any), the staffs of the jail in their quarter as general household. But the students/nurses inmates of the jail, patients of the hospitals etc. should be enumerated as the member of the institutional household.
c. Other household: All the households other than general and institutional households are other households. The inmates of offices, residential hotel, religious institution, educational institution and the guards of business and industry who stay at night and the inmates of messes will be the member of these households. Persons not working in the residential hotel but staying there temporarily should be enumerated in the census night with the help of the authority.
Types of household:
Consider the household as "General household" if it is used mainly as dwelling house and mark the (1) oval accordingly. For jail, hostel, barrack and hospital treat them as "Institutional household" and check (2) oval cell. Please don't ask this question directly to the respondent, rather observe and note down the appropriate answer.
