Interviewer instructions
4. Concepts and main definitions: In order to manage the survey properly, a list of key terms have been established, which should help interviewers in carrying out their work. Detailed definitions are provided in relevant Chapters on individual Modules.
Population: Set of elements which make the whole. That could be all the people in a country or an entity, all households, all household, etc.
Sample: a part of population representing the whole population. Sample selection is a subject of statistical methods that take into account characteristics of both the population and individual members of the population.
Direct interview: Procedure by which information on certain person is collected directly from the person. The person giving information on him/herself is a ?direct respondent?.
Reference period: Period about which the respondent is asked questions. The survey uses different reference periods depending on type of required information, respondent?s ability to remember and objectives of each topic to be analyzed.
Household is social unit consisting of one or more persons who use joint accommodation and food. In other words, a household is a group of person who
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normally live in the same household unit (?live under the same roof?), who are or are not related and who eat together (?eat from the same pot?).
Head of the household: is a person defined as such for the purpose of the survey, irrespective of reason (the oldest by age, decision maker in the household, a person who earns the most income, based on tradition, etc.).
Guest: a person who use joint accommodation and food free of charge together with household members. Guest who stays longer than six months is considered household member.
Tenant of the household: a person who pays for accommodation in a part of a household. This person is not a member of the household whether they eat on his/her own or prepare food seperately. Such tenant is considered a separate household.
Students who study in another town, but they are supported by the household are treated as household members, although they more than six months absent.
Household members: Anybody who meets the following criteria:
Members
A household member is present at the moment of interview, if that is the place where he/she spent at least 6 months of the previous 12 months. The household head should be listed as a member even if they did not spend 6 of the previous 12 months in the household.
Person absent at the moment of interview, if he/she is absent less than six months during the previous 12 months.
Guests or other persons who live in the household longer than six months during the previous 12 months.
Newborn babies irrespectively of duration of their stay in the household as well as the head of the household.
Students who are absent longer than six months but are supported by household members.
Non-members
Person absent from the household longer than 6 months (including ones serving military service, in prison, religious service, etc.)
Those who live elsewhere, visitors or tourists who are in the household less than six months.
Tenants who eat and who do not eat with the household.
Those who eat in the household but live elsewhere or live in the household but eat elsewhere.
Similar to tenants, students who pay for accommodation and food to the household.
Question 7: Interviewer should determine who is a household member by following the criteria listed. Exclude domestic help (non resident) from question 3. Exclude individuals who have not been resident in the household for more than 6 months (question 6). Include newborn babies and students who have not been living in or part of another household, and new spouses in the household.
