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 _ _ _ _

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 _ _ _

Chapter VI - Interviewing the households and filling out the household questionnaire
To complete the household questionnaire, it is necessary to have identified the household beforehand at his/her/their usual place of residence. In particular, you must have identified the head of household, in the case of an ordinary household, or the head of the collective household, and then identified each person able to be counted in the household as "Resident (Present)," "Resident (Absent)," or "Visitor."

6.1.1- Data available upon completion of the building, dwelling, and household numbering phase
These are all the data that have been communicated to you and that are copied into the CD file that has been given to you: the name and code of the region, the department, the sub-prefecture, or the commune in which your Census District is located, and the number assigned to your Census District. These data remain the same for all households in your CD. Once you find yourself in any inhabited area within the CD, you simply transcribe the exact name of the precinct in question on the line in relation to each of these variables (region, department, sub-prefecture or commune), and then enter the code, using only one digit per square, onto the corresponding coding grid. Then you enter the number of your Census District (CD) in the corresponding coding grid.

The data available at the end of the numbering phase also include all the data you assigned during this phase in the field, in order to identify the buildings and dwellings occupied by any given household (whether ordinary or collective). Therefore, when you arrive in a previously identified household (with the household number, type of establishment, and head of household already determined), you only need recognize the village, the neighborhood or camp, the block, the building, and the dwelling occupied by this household, to find the corresponding information on the numbering form for buildings, dwellings, and households that must be copied onto the household questionnaire. The digital codes of villages, neighborhoods, and camps are on the directory of villages, neighborhoods, and camps, as well as the CD number you have been assigned.

On the numbering form for buildings, dwellings, and households, you will also find the household number, along with the surname and given names of the head of the household, in the case of an ordinary household, or the type and name of the facility, if it is a collective household. For the codification of the type of facility, for collective households, comply with the following codes:

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Thus, depending on the type of establishment (in the case of collective households) you encounter, you must enter the appropriate digital code on the coding grid.

Therefore, using the data in your possession at the time you encounter a household at home, you can fill in the elements relating to the household identification characteristics on the first page of the questionnaire: variables 1-11. For variable 9: household number, three positions are provided, but an isolated box is added; this box represents the type of household. Thus, you will enter 1 for an ordinary household and 2 for a collective household, followed by the number you would have assigned to this household, with three positions in the three boxes that follow.

The other variables on the 1st page -- the number of people counted in the household, the number of residents in the household, the sheet number and the total number of sheets and the summary table -- will be processed only after the count is completed for the household. Once you have completed the data for variables 1-11 on the first page, move on to the second page of the household questionnaire.

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."