Interviewer instructions
2. Common Expenses and 3. Number of Households
Within the dwelling people form households.
Remember that a household is formed by one or more people who normally live in the dwelling, who sustain themselves from a single food budget, and who may or may not be related. According to this definition:
All people who sustain themselves from the same food budget form a household.
[Drawing of a family in a kitchen]
In order to form part of a household, the person should be a resident of the same dwelling.
[Drawing depicting two households eating]
A household can be made up of:
a single person
only relatives
people who are relatives and others who are not
people who are not relatives.
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If in the dwelling there are two or more households, use different questionnaires for each one of them. In the first household, initiate the interview beginning with section I. Characteristics of the dwelling. For the other households, begin with the section list of people in the household. The data should be provided by an informant from each household; if in one of the households you do not find an informant, you can ask a person who lives in the same dwelling.
[Depiction of these two completed questions on the enumeration form]
If they report that there are guests or boarders who pay for lodging and share a common food budget among themselves, consider them as forming a household and record them on the same questionnaire. If they do not share expenses, they form different households and you should use a different questionnaire for each household.
The information corresponding to the owners of the dwelling, if they live there, should always be written on a different questionnaire, because they form a separate household from the guests.
