Interviewer instructions
214. Numbering of households living in one flat (ger). Households living in one flat (ger) shall be numbered 1, 2 ,3 etc. Which household shall be written under the number one shall be decided by the households and the numbers shall be written in the Housing Census Questionnaire accordingly. Enumerators shall understand that the number of household and the numbering of households in the Census Questionnaire are different.
The household which is written under the number one shall be considered as to be living in a "whole flat" (even if it is jointly owned). (Note under the sub-paragraph "b" and the paragraph 215 of this guideline).
b. Ger
230. The Numbering of Households in a ger shall be filled in as it is specified by the paragraph 214 of this Guideline. If only one household is living in one ger then the answers for indicator "the numbering of households in a ger" shall be filled in as 1. If two households are living in one ger then a Household Questionnaire shall be opened for both of them and the answers for living conditions shall be circled accordingly.
231. Gers shall be divided into three categories: "state", "entities" and "private".
a. State owned gers. gers owned by either by state or public organizations (Ministries or Special Departments or Factories or Vegetable Farm or other organizations) and being lived by their workers or employees shall be considered as to be "state owned gers";
b. Gers owned by entities. gers owned either by Agricultural Entities or Cooperatives of Joint Agricultural Entities being lived by their workers or employees shall be considered as to be "gers owned by either Agricultural Entities or Cooperatives of Joint Agricultural Entities".
c. Gers of Private Ownership. gers privately owned by individuals shall be considered as to be gers of Private Ownership;
d. Otriin ger -- shall mean the gers which are used for pasturing animals (to move around) and be filled in only by asking from herders if they have one or not.
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232. The number of gers The number of gers shall be defined by how many gers (1,2 etc) a household owns. Gers shall be differentiated with the number of their walls. For example: if a household has 2 gers one of which one has 5 walls and the other one has 65 walls then the ger number shall be filled in as 2 and the number of walls as 5.
233. The number of Households and Permanent Residents. As for the households written under the number one the number of the households shall be written in total and for the households written under the number other than one it shall be only 1. As for the households written under the number one the number of the permanent residents shall be written in total and for the households written under the number other than one it shall be only the number of their permanent residents.
234. For answering a question whether a household living in a ger has electricity or not either one of "yes -- 1" or "no -- 0" shall be chosen.
