Definition
Household membership
Private household members are person who usually live in a particular household, including persons who were temporarily absent at the time of interviewing (but do not normally live somewhere else permanently) but fit into one of the following categories, i.e.
(1) those living away from home temporarily for less than three months such as in-patients, priests (excluding the members who moved away for education or occupation and therefore have another permanent residence, prisoners, soldiers and psychiatric patients.)
(2) those living away from home for more than three months without permanent residence, such as crews, salesman, etc.
(3) those going abroad for less than six months for education or training.
(4) those who work away from home temporarily for less than 30 days per year, such as sugar-cane harvesters.
Household members included unrelated boarders or lodgers who had lived at the address temporarily for more than three months.
