Interviewer instructions
Duration and the reason of absence from the residence place (Item 4)
The reason for the absence from the usual residence (the item 4.2) will be registered for all the absent persons who were recorded:
-- at item 3 code 2 and at item 4.1 codes 2 or 3,
-- at item 3 code 3, regardless of the code of the item 4.
During the registration on the PL form, the persons will be split in four categories, according to the reason for leaving:
-- persons who left for work, or on duty service;
-- persons who left for study;
-- persons who left for business interest;
-- persons who left for various reasons: (inmates to the sanitary units - hospitals, clinics, sanatoriums, old people's houses schools for handicapped, orphanages, hospital-hostels, school hostels, those visiting relatives, those retained on the prisons, or special re-education schools).
The way of recording:
-- the mark x will be written on the code box 4 -- for persons who left for working (on this category are included the persons engaged to work on the enterprises, institutions, working sites, to the private persons, as well as the persons detached for duty service);
-- the mark x will be written for the code 5 -- for persons who left for studies (to the same code will be included the school children and students who left for studies);
-- the mark x will be written on the code 6 for persons who left for business interest;
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-- the mark x will be written on the code 7 -- for persons who left the place due to reasons, other than those already mentioned (for example: inmates to the sanitary units -- hospitals, clinics, sanatoriums -- old people' houses, schools for handicapped, orphanages, those visiting or persons who are retained on prisons or re-education schools).
The recording of item 4 will be done correlated with item 3 --The situation at the census moment, allowing the establishment the categories of the present and absent persons at the reference point of time of the census.
-- If for item 3 code 2 is written, and for item 4 the code 1 (absent for less than 6 months) -- the person is considered temporarily absent, who left for another place of the country;
-- If for item 3 the code 3 is written, and for item 4 the codes 1 or 2 (absent for less than 12 months) -- the person is considered temporarily absent, who left to go abroad;
-- If for item 3 code 2 is written, and for item 4 codes 2 or 3 (absent for 6 months and more) -- the person is considered to have left for a longer period of time to another place of the country;
-- If for item 3 code 3 is written, and for item 4 code 3 -- (absent for 12 months and more) -- the person is considered to have left for a longer period to go abroad.
