Interviewer instructions
    
                                    Enumerator shall be marked respondent's residence as midnight of 4 January 2000 is the census moment. The administrative unit is soum in aimag and district in the capital. Persons who are counting as temporary absent in particular soum or district and counting a visitor in recent place during the census days.  There are  three categories to define person's residence. These are:
-permanent resident
-temporary absent
-visitor
(There is a especial instruction for those who are citizenship of Mongolia-enumerated in abroad, soldiers and prisoners).
Permanent  resident.
At  time of census, people who were living in place of their usual residence will be considered as permanent resident.
Those people, who are living at that place more than six months, whether they registered or not at that  administrative unit will be considered as permanent resident.
Also, people who are living less than six months but intended to live more than six months will be considered as permanent resident.
For example: People who came from countryside to UB  one month ago, but intended to live in UB six months and more than six months will be considered as permanent resident.
However, the enumerator should clearly explain these people that they  enumerated as permanent resident only for the population and housing census.
It will not effect on their administrative registration status.
During the census people, who were not in their household and country belong to the following categories will be considered as permanent resident.
persons on holidays
watchman on duty
those people who execute their jobs by several days like: railway workers, workers of air and auto sectors, post-man.
people who went to recreations and travel for less than a week and children who are in 24-hour kindergarten.
 persons temporarily out from their place of residence (went for fire wood, for cattle, for hunting etc)
went to military gathering 
women and infants are in delivery hospital
Temporary absent
People who are not at their home during the census time, who are temporarily absent from the country six and less than six months will be considered as temporary absent.
This category will cover the following group of people.
people on official/business missions
temporarily or seasonal workers
people went to recreations or travelling more than one week
people who went to do industrial practice
people visited to other aimag and soum to meet with relatives and friends
people- taking care for patient at hospital not more than seven days
people -arrested for investigation
police-custody
Also excluding Mongolian diplomatic and international organization's personnel and their families located outside the country, people working, studying and  people on official and personal missions in abroad will belong to “temporary absent” category.
Temporary address of temporary absent person within the country will be recorded in temporary address: aimag, capital city and district name. See  code from annex -1 of the instruction. Country name, which is living temporary absent person outside the country  will be recorded in line of aimag and capital city and city name will be recorded in line of soum and district. See code from annex-5 of the instruction.
Visitor
People who are living in the census enumeration area less than six months will be enumerated as “visitors” In other words those people enumerated  in their usual administrative unit as “temporary absent” will enumerate in their temporary  living place as “ visitors”. Also  if people who were in airport, railway station, transportation station and other checking places do not have “census enumeration certificate” they will be enumerated as “ visitor”. 
Temporary address: aimag, capital city/country/, soum and duureg name of temporary absent person and permanent address: aimag, capital city/country/, soum and duureg name of  visitor. 
If the person enumerated as “visitor” record his or her permanent address, if enumerated as “temporary absent” record  temporary address. See codes from annex-1 and annex-5.