Interviewer instructions
3.11 Household
A household is one person or many persons living in the same house, and these persons together seek for, consume, and utilize all facilities for living, regardless of whether they are relatives or not.
There are two types of households: private households and collective households.
3.11.1 Private household refers to a household that lives in a house. Private households can be divided into two categories:
a) Individual household refers to a household that has one person who may be the owner, tenure, resident, or house guard. S/he is not a member of any other household that may live in the same house.
b) Multiple-individual household refers to a household that has 2 persons or more living together in the same house, and they seek for and utilize all facilities for living together, regardless of whether they are relatives or not.
3.12.2 Collective household refers to a household that consists of several people living together because of certain rules or regulations indicating that these people must live together, or need to stay together for their own benefit. These people may or may not eat together.
There are two types of collective households.
1. Institution household
These include:
a. Monks, novices, nuns, and adherents who live in a monastery or temple.
b. Patients who stay in a hospital for more than three months, physicians and nurses who do not live in separated houses.
c. Boarding pupils and teachers who stay in the boarding school.
d. People who receive assistance in a foster home or shelter, and the care-takers who do not live at a separate place.
e. Prisoners in a prison or jail.
f. Soldiers or policemen who stay in the camp or barracks, including cadet and police cadet.
2. Other collective household
These include:
a. People who regularly rent a room in a hotel.
b. People who rent a room in a dormitory.
c. Six or more laborers who live together in a factory that is their working place, and the owner of the factory provides food for them to eat together.
For the households of directors, managers and staff of the collective households: if they stay in the separate houses, their households are considered private households. Examples are households of the staffs who work in prisons or temples, households of hospital directors, households of hotel managers, households of the janitors in the student dormitory, etc.
i. Type of household
For private households, circle number 1.
For collective households, select one of the following categories:
2 Temple
3 Prison, jail
4 Welfare lodging
5 Hospital
6 Boarding school
7 Military or police barracks
For other types of collective households such as hotel, dormitory, and other, select the category that matches the type of that household.
