Literal question
1. Do you own or are you purchasing this dwelling, is it provided to you by an employer, do you use it for free, or do you rent this house?
[ ] 1 Owned
[ ] 2 Employer provides (go to q3)
[ ] 3 Free, authorized (go to q3)
[ ] 4 Free, not authorized (go to q3)
[ ] 5 Rented (go to q4)
Interviewer instructions
Section 8: Housing
This section aims at measuring the quality of housing occupied by the household. It seeks information on the ownership of the dwelling, rent expenditures, as well as the physical characteristics of the dwelling.
It also deals with the measure of the degree of access to a number of basic infrastructures believed to be particularly sensitive to economic conditions such as water, sanitation, fuel, etc.
Question 1: It seeks information on the ownership of the dwelling and to determine whether the dwelling is owned by the household; provided by the employers; free authorized; free, not authorized or rented. The interviewer is expected to record only one option in the space provided. Only one option is expected. If code 1, i.e. owned, then the interviewer should continue to q2. If it is code 2, 3, or 4, the interviewer skips to q3, and if code 5, skip to q4
Definition
Dwelling: This includes all types of structures occupied by members of a household. It may consist of a room(s) inside a house, a group of houses, a multi-storeyed house, and a hut or group of huts.
Owned means that the dwelling/building is owned by the household, either built personally or purchased by the household.
Employer provides: It means that the employer provided the dwelling for the household because he/she is the employee of the employer.
Free authorized means that the household lives in the dwelling with full permission of the owner of the dwelling and the household is not paying for it.
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Free, not authorized means that the household life in the dwelling without the permission of the owner of the dwelling and nothing is paid. The owner of the dwelling can eject the household any time without any legal implication.
Rented means that the household paying for the dwelling and he/she is paying an agreed amount to the owner regularly based on the term agreed on, either yearly, quarterly, or monthly.
