[Questions on persons]

[Ask to] residents (list all persons usually residing in the household, whether present or absent) and visitors (list all persons who do not usually reside in the household, but who spent the night preceding the interview in the household.

The whole population
[Questions 1-14 were asked of all persons.]

P5. Situation of residence

III.2.2 Persons to be counted
You should enumerate all resident members of the private households in your enumeration area and all the visitors in these private households.

Residents: These are the persons belonging to one of the following categories:

- Persons who have been living in the household for at least six months;
- Persons who have been living in the household for less than six months but have decided to remain in the household for more than six months.
Example: a civil servant who has just been posted to an area, a woman who has married in the household.

When you go to a household, a resident may be present or absent.
A present resident is a person who usually lives in the household and spent the previous night there or who is presents in the household during the interview, even if he spent the previous night out of the household.
An absent resident is a person who usually lives in the household but did not spend the previous night there and did not return before you came. If he has been absent from the household for more than Six months, he is no longer considered a resident in-the household.

Examples: when you come to the household: A woman has gone to the fields but spent the previous night in the household, then she is a 'present resident'
A man left the previous day for the market in a neighboring town; if he returns in the morning before you come, he is a permanent resident. If he does not return before you come, he is an absent resident.
A child or a member of the household has been hospitalized for more than .six months; he should not be counted as a member of the household.
A member of the household left seven months ago, he should not be counted as a member of the household.

N.B.: All night workers (doctors, persons on call) must be counted as present residents if they spent the previous night at their worksite.
Visitors: These are persons who spent the previous night in the household whereas they do not usually live there and did not leave before you came.
If they left before you came, they should not be counted.
Special cases

Entire household has travelled.
An entire household may leave the housing unit in which it usually lives. If the household left more than six months ago, its members should no longer be counted as members of that unit. If they left less than six months ago and if it is temporary travel, they should be counted as absent residents of the housing unit; ask for information from the neighbors.
You should count all foreigners who are not members of the diplomatic and consular corps.
Some groups of students.
A group of students who rent a house together and share feeding costs should be considered as a private household.
N.B.: Boarding students should be counted as visitors if they are with their families when the census is being taken, students living in rented dormitories or halls of residence should be considered as a collective household.

c) Filling in pages 2 and 3

1. Columns P1 to P14: The whole population
These columns are to be filled in for all the members of the household: residents and visitors.
Ask the head of the household or the person who answers your questions to give you the names of all present and absent residents (for less than six months) of the household. Classify them under column P2 in the following order:

Where the head of the household is a polygamist, each of his wives must be followed by her unmarried children beginning with the oldest, if they are members of the household.

All these persons who are related or not to the head of the household will be followed if necessary by their spouse (s) and children if the latter are members of the household
If after such classification, the head of the household realizes that he has forgotten a resident member of the household, write down his name after the other resident members.
Once all the residents of the household have been listed, ask if there are visitors in the household. If so, also classify them as in the previous case.
After this inventory of the members, first fill in columns P1 to P5 for all the members and, as from column P6 fill in, line by line, the individual questions for each of them.

Column P5: Status of residence.
Note that this column concerns only resident members of the household. You should encircle one number for each member depending on whether he is present or absent.
Encircle 1 for present residents or 2 for absent residents. This column has already been filled for visitors.