Interviewer instructions
3.32 Type of Living Place
Categorized by major material used in construction. They are:
3.32.1 Building means construction structures using concrete, concrete block, concrete sheet, brick and cement, or brick only.
3.32.2 Semi-building means a brick house coating with cement, or concrete for ground floor, with wood for upper floor, or one part is brick/cement structure and the other part is wooden structure in the equivalent ratio. These include a house with brick/cement base and cello-crete for upper floor.
3.32.3 Wooden house means a house using wood as major material with tin roof or earthen or wooden tiles. ?Major Material? in this sense considers components of a house. They are poles, floor, ceiling, wall and roof. If all these comprise more than 50% of the house, it is regarded as a wooden house.
Example: if a house has poles, floor, and ceiling made of harden wood, but has bamboo walls and grass roof. This house is regarded as a wooden house.
3.32.4 A house constructed using local temporary material: A country style house using mostly local and temporary material e.g., flax, votives grass, bamboo, stick, etc.
If a house has harden-wood poles and upper part, bamboo wall and floor with grass roof, it is regarded as a house constructing with local and temporary material.
3.32.5 A house constructing with used and decayed material e.g., used pieces of fragmented wood, used tin, etc. put together to build a house.
NOTE:
1. In the case that the living place of the household are composed of several single houses: Descriptive characteristics of the living place should be based on the house at which the head of the household is living.
2. In the case that the living place of household is a single house, but accommodates more than one household: The descriptive characteristics of the living are considered the same type for all households.
Section 3 Questions on Housing
(Ask only private household)
Questions on housing are concerned with living places of every private household in municipal area. For those outside municipal area and Bangkok, ask only the sample households.
Guideline for questioning and recording
1. Ask conditions of living place by household not by person.
2. If a household living in many houses in the same area, consider the house where head of the household lives.
3. If several households living in the same house, consider conditions of the living place of the main household, other households or conditions of living are regarded as rooms in the house.
4. In recording answer, circle one code number only. If answer is ?others,? specify and record the answer clearly.
5. The question that has no answer code, record statement or number in the blank on the dot line.
H 2. Type of living place (consider the house)
Consider the material used in construction as
a) Permanent material such as hardwood e.g., teak wood, rubber wood, etc. and concrete, concrete block, concrete sheet, tin, brick, etc.
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b) Temporary material e.g. the material available in the local e.g. vetiver, teak leaf, bamboo, stick etc. decayed and used material e.g., used tin, pieces of wood, decayed wood.
Take the majority of body of the house into consideration using 5 important components of the house e.g., pole, floor, ceiling, wall, and roof (see Definition Chapter 3).
Circle only one code number corresponding to the type of living places:
1. Brick
2. Combination of Brick/Cement with wood
3. Using permanent materials
4. Using materials found locally
5. Constructed with decayed and used material
