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Population and Housing Census 2007 - IPUMS Subset

Ethiopia, 2007
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ETH_2007_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Agency, Minnesota Population Center
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Relationship to household head (ET2007A_0402)

Data file: ETH2007-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 160
End: 160
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Section 3: Details of persons in the household


4. Relationship to the head of household

[] 1 Head
[] 2 Spouse
[] 3 Son/daughter of the head and/or spouse
[] 4 Mother or father of head/spouse
[] 5 Sister or brother of head/spouse
[] 6 Nephew or niece
[] 7 Grandchild of head/spouse
[] 8 Other relatives (adopted, godchild etc.)
[] 9 Non relatives
Categories
Value Category
1 Head
2 Spouse
3 Son or daughter of head and/or spouse
4 Mother or father of head or spouse
5 Sister or brother of head or spouse
6 Niece or nephew
7 Grand child of head or spouse
8 Other relative
9 Non- relatives
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
C. Head of household

A head of household is a person who is usual member (male or female) in the household acknowledged as head by the other members. If a man has two or more wives who live in separate households, he will be enumerated as head of the household with his old alive wife (first married) if he is recognized as head. Other wives will be enumerated with their households as head or member of the households.


Question 4:- What is the relationship of [the respondent] to the head of the household?

Always the head of the household should be listed in the first line in question 2. For question 4, the person listed in the first line is the head of the household and code 1 that is the head of the household code should be shaded. Then by asking the respondent the code of the relationship of each member of the household to the head should be shaded by selection the appropriate code from the choices of the codes given under this question.

For example:- If the wife is listed next to the head of the household code 2, the code given in front of the spouse, should be shaded. If the head has more than one wife, code 2 should be shaded for all his wives. Concerning the children, code 3, the code given for the child of the head and/or spouse i.e. a child of both the head and the spouse, the child of the head only or the child of the spouse only should be shaded.

The relationship of the usual members of the household should be correctly identified and the appropriate code of the relationship for each member of the household should be selected from the codes given under this question. The choices of the relationship codes listed under this question are given below.


-Head
-Spouse (wife/husband)
-Son/daughter of the head and/or spouse
-Mother or father of head/spouse
-Sister or brother of head./spouse
-Nephew or niece
-Grandchild of head/spouse
-Other relative (adopted child, godchild... etc)
-Non - relatives


The codes of all inmates of hotel/hostel, inmates of other collective quarters and homeless persons should be code 9.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's relationship to the household head.
Universe
All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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