Interviewer instructions
Remember that the person whose name appears on the first line of the list of members is the head of the household. All other members should be related to him in some way. This relationship should be indicated in column 5 through the use of the appropriate codes shown below:
01 Head
02 Wife/spouse
03 Son/daughter
04 Brothers/sisters
05 Son-in-law/daughter-in-law
06 Grandson/granddaughter
07 Father/mother
08 Other relative
09 Boarder
10 Domestic helper
11 Non-relative
Note that a married son who, together with members of his family, is a member of the household of his parents with whom he lives, should not be reported as head of his own family but as “Son”, and his wife and children as “Daughter-in-law” and “Grandson” or “Granddaughter”.
Adopted and stepchildren are to be considered son/daughter and will have a code of “03”.
In some households, relatives of the head or his spouse are hired as domestic help or live with them as boarders. For such relatives, their being a domestic helper or boarder should take precedence and should be listed as such in column 5.
