[Questions 2-16 were addressed only in case of an occupied dwelling, with occupants present, per Question 1.]
II. Habitational Characteristics of the Dwelling- for each household
[Questions 10-16]
16. What is the total number of persons in the household? _ _
In this part of the document we will know the characteristics of the part of a dwelling that a household occupies. Because of this, always, in all households we fill out this part of the Document.
16. What is the total number of persons in the household?
The objective of these questions is to determine which and how many persons are members of this household and proceed to their inscription and ordering to facilitate the application of the part of Population. Also making sure the principal objective of the Census is to count all and each one of the persons who inhabit the country on the day of the Census.
Here it is opportune that we point out that the Census is a de factor census, which means that it tries to know the number and characteristics of persons who are present in the household without it being their place of usual residence.
Because of this, the enumerating refers to the moment of the census: which is 0 hours of the day of the census.
And we enumerate:
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Persons who died after 0 hours of the day of the Census.
We do not enumerate:
Let us summarize in a chart who is to be enumerated:
If a person spent the night and is absent, do we enumerate them? Yes.
If they went to work: Do we enumerate them? Yes.
If they went shopping, for a walk, etc.: Do we enumerate them? Yes.
If they are on a voyage: Do we enumerate them? Yes.
If a person did not spend the night and is present, do we enumerate them? Yes, if not enumerated in another place.
We order persons, beginning with the head of a household, in accordance with the instructions that are at the bottom of question 15. We assign a correlative number to each number beginning with 01 that always will be for the head of the household. This number will be written in the column order number. And in this order we will enumerate the persons in the part of the Population Document.
Very important: Every census document has space in question 15 for registering up to 6 persons, members of a household. Therefore, if we find a household with more than 6 persons, after writing them down in the chart, we fill out the circle that is at the bottom of question 15 and we fill out another document.
If there are more than 6 persons in a household mark the circle and use another document according to the instructions. In this case complete question 16 in the last document that you use.
How do we proceed then, with this other document? We reproduce the same information of the Geographic Location that is in the first document and we fill out the circle that is in the upper left of this document and that says "When a household needs another or other documents fill out this circle starting with the second document that you use". Then we go to question 15 of the new document and we write down the members who we have not registered starting with the second line, giving numbers to persons starting with 07.
Once the annotation of the names of all the members is finished, the total number in question 16, "What is the total amount of persons in the household?", is written down.
Caution: When there are more than 6 persons in a household, we should fill out the total number of persons in the last document that we filled out.