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