Question pretext
This question is to provide information on the conditions under which families occupy the land.
It is quite possible for the tenure of the land to be different from the tenure of the dwelling unit - for example, when a member of the household owns a house but pays land-rent; or when a member of the household has built (and therefore owns) a dwelling on squatted land.
The categories are defined below:
Literal question
Under what arrangement is the land occupied?It is....
Categories
Value |
Category |
1 |
Owned/freehold |
2 |
Leasehold |
3 |
Rented |
4 |
Rented free |
5 |
Permission to work land |
6 |
Share cropping |
7 |
Squatted |
8 |
Other |
9 |
Don't know/Not stated |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Don't Know/Not Stated To be used only if the householder (squatter)genuinely does not know the answer. Avoid the use of these categories as far as possible. They should only be used as a last resort after extensive efforts to obtain the information have failed.