Interviewer instructions
Questions 3 to 15 are only asked at dwellings with occupants present (Circle 1).
Question No. 3: How many households reside in this dwelling? (Consider as home(s) those who cook independently and manage a separate budget)
The objective of this question is to identify the number of homes that accommodate the selected dwelling. This number should permit us to know the dwelling needs in the country and also to rely on the necessary elements for bettering the conditions of life of the members of the home.
In a dwelling there can be more than one home. Consider as Dwelling(s) those who cook independently and manage a separate budget.
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Before marking the response, you should read the following indications and put emphasis on: Do all the persons who live in this dwelling share one eating expense? And then proceed to the following form:
If the response to the question is affirmative, in other words, if a person states that all the residents of the home have a common eating expense, it will be considered a single home.
If the response to the question is " no", this indicates that there is more than one home or group of persons who have separate eating expenses. Enter the number of existing homes. In this case, you should identify the principal home and which are additional homes and continue as it is explained in section d. (Numbering of the additional homes in a dwelling) from point 2.
General rules of procedure.
If the person does not know which is the principal home, help them by asking them who is the head or owner of the house, the one responsible for renting or the person who pays the majority of the expenses; the rest of the homes should be classified as additional homes.
Additional home: is one that lives under the same room of another home, but is clearly differentiated because it has its own expense, principally for eating.
Example of question 3:
Miss Cárcamo resides in the dwelling with her grandchild and a cousin who occupies a room ceded for her. She declares that she only cooks for herself and her grandchild; since the cousin always eats out.
[Below the text is a form.]
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Continuing with the previous example:
You are going to write down in the upper right part of the questionnaire, the following information:
[Below the text are two forms.]
That is to say that, at the end you will have two census questionnaires identified with the same Questionnaire number, but with a different identification for each home.
Note: The questionnaire of the additional home should have all the sections filled out except Section II. Dwelling Information.
