Interviewer instructions
Question 10. Household is understood to be one person or a group of persons that eat from the same pot and sleep in the same dwelling. How many households are there in this dwelling?
In this question, determining the number of households that live in the dwelling that you are investigating depends on the concept of household and its correct understanding.
From the point of view of the census, the household can be made up of one person or various persons that are not necessarily related. Remember that in a dwelling, there can be more than one household.
Having identified the dwelling unit and its corresponding type (question 1), whether it is a boarding room, apartment, etc, and having taken the information for the rest of the questions about the dwelling characteristics of the dwelling, continue by identifying form of cohabitation of the persons in the dwelling.
In the margin any type of dwelling (question 1), you may find the following cases:
Case 1. This is a dwelling unit inhabited by the father, mother, and children and in one bedroom of the dwelling; another son lives with his wife. They cook independently from the rest of the family; in this case, there are two households in the same dwelling unit; the first is made up of the father, the mother, and the children; the second is formed by the married son and his wife.
[Illustration: shows two tables, two sleeping quarters]
Case 2. Taking the example above, but with the case that the married son and his wife share the food with the rest of the members of the household, this would be only one household.
[Illustration: shows one tables, two sleeping quarters]
Case 3. If the dwelling is inhabited by 3 students, where each one eats separately, this is considered three households with one person in each, sharing one dwelling.
