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Household questionnaire

1. Region _ _
2. Department _ _
3. Sub-prefecture (S/P) _ _
4. Commune (municipality) _ _
5. Census district number _ _ _ _
6. Village _ _ _
7. Neighborhood / camp _ _ _ _
8. Lot number _ _ _ _

____ Building number
____ Dwelling number

9. Household number _ _ _ _
10. Type of establishment (collective household) _
11. Record type _
12. Number of residents in household _ _ _
13. Number of persons surveyed in household _ _ _

____ Questionnaire number
____ Total number of questionnaires

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4.1.2- Ordinary household and collective household
The household is defined by taking into account how the people work together so as to provide, individually or collectively, for their individual food needs and other vital needs. A distinction is made between two types of households: the ordinary household and the collective household.

An ordinary household is made up of a group of people, who may or may not be related to one another, who recognize the authority of the same individual, called the "head of household," who live under the same roof or in the same compound, and who pool all or some portion of their resources. The ordinary household is usually made up of the head of household, his or her spouse(s), and their unmarried children. In quite a few cases, the ordinary household may include the head of household's married children, extended family (direct ascendants, descendants, and/or collateral relatives), and, in some cases, unrelated individuals. The fundamental criteria used to identify members of an ordinary household are as follows:

1. living under the same roof or in the same compound,
2. recognizing the authority of the head of household,
3. pooling resources, in whole or in part.

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It is important to note that a person who lives alone and provides for his or her own basic needs, i.e., food, clothing, housing, etc. constitutes a household.

Likewise, a group of people (unmarried individuals, unrelated individuals, etc.) who share the same dwelling will be considered a household only if they recognize the authority of one of them, who is thus considered the head of household, and if they have arranged to take their meals together. If, on the contrary, these people maintain a certain mutual independence, aside from living together, then they do not form a household; there will be as many separate households as there are independent people.

A collective household is made up of a group of people who are not necessarily related to one another and who live together in the same institution for reasons of health, education, work, travel, discipline, or otherwise. It is the institution that regulates the conditions of their coexistence, taking its own objectives into account. This includes the following institutions:

- boarding schools and university residences;
- military boarding schools and barracks;
- solidarity housing projects (orphanages);
- hotels;
- prisons;
- temporary construction sites (construction camps);
- hospitals and other health facilities (psychiatric hospitals);
- convents and other religious institutions (monasteries).

However, people who live freely and normally in these institutions with their entire family (wife or wives and children), form ordinary households.

Ordinary and collective households are a frame of reference in which individuals are identified and counted, as well as statistical units of analysis.

6.2.1- Collective households
In the case of a collective household, there is, by definition, no head of household. Therefore any member of this household may be entered under number "001." For the registration of the other people who live in a collective household, there are no specific rules to follow; the key point is to record and collect the information sought concerning each person living in that household, without omission or duplication.

Important! The absence of a natural person designated "head of household in a collective household means that, for each person listed in such a household, the variable "relationship to head of household" is irrelevant, or "not applicable."

6.2.2- Ordinary households
The registration of people living in an ordinary household always begins with the head of household, who has usually been identified by full name (surname and given names) during the preliminary phase of numbering of buildings, dwellings, and households. The head of household always has the sequential number "001."

For those in a regular household, visitors who are not members of the household are always recorded last, after all people residing in the household (present residents and absent residents) have been recorded. People recognized as residents of the household (both present residents and absent residents) must be recorded in the following order:

1 - The head of household (HH), who must without exception be listed first, under number 001;
2 - Unmarried children of the HH whose mothers are no longer part of the household (from the youngest to the oldest);
3 - The first wife of the HH;
4 - The children of the HH and his first wife, from the youngest to the oldest;
5 - Any unmarried children of the first wife resulting from one or more previous unions, from the youngest to the oldest;
6 - The second wife and her children, in the case of a polygamous HH (following the order applied to the case of the first wife);
7 - Other wives (again, following the order applied to the case of the first wife);
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8 - Married children, their spouse(s), and their children who live with them (following the order applied to the HH and his wives);
9 - The other relatives of the HH who usually sleep in the home of and who recognize the authority of the HH, possibly accompanied by their spouses and their children;
10 - Friends and domestic servants who eat and sleep in the household, possibly accompanied by their spouses and their children;
11 - Visitors, regardless of their relationship to the head of household.