Interviewer instructions
Household: The household is made up of an individual or a group of individuals related or not, living under the same roof under the responsibility of a head of household whose authority is recognized from all members. The household is characterized by these three key criteria (related or not, living under the same roof and recognizing the authority of a head of household). It can simply be a person living alone or with his or her children.
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1.Ordinary household
The ordinary household is made up of a head of household, his wife/wives and their unmarried children, possibly with others who may or may not be related to them. It can be a sedentary household as well as a nomadic household. A nomadic household is defined as being a household living in a mobile home (tent) and undertakes periodic or continual displacements.
Special cases
1. What to do with a polygamous household?
If the wives are in the same concession: they are part of a same household.
If the wives are not in the same concession each one constitutes a separate household. In this specific case, the husband is surveyed in the household he is in when the enumerator is there. Thus, in the absence of the husband, the other wives will be heads of their own household.
2. A tenant who does not take his meals where he lodges is a separate household.
3. In the case of a concession where a man lives with his wives and children. Each married child is a new household with his or her spouse(s), children and their potential unmarried dependents.
4. Each member of group of unmarried people, related or not, living together and independently providing their own meals, constitutes a single-person household.
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2. Communal household
A communal household is a group of several people who do not meet the criteria established by an ordinary household: no head of household, no spouses and children, etc. These are people who live together in a lodging or in individual or collective rooms, for reasons of study, health, work, travel, correction, communal interest.
The collective household can be: a hospital or health center with hospitalization, an educational boarding establishment (High school or middle school, Colleges of Education, Institutes etc.), a reeducation center (Bolle center, for example), a hotel, a convent, and other religious communities, a military camp, etc.
Special cases: The ordinary households that are housed in dwellings in the same courtyard as a communal household are identified and surveyed separately on an ordinary household sheet. For example: the Director of the hospital who has a home in the courtyard of the hospital.
