Section 5: Information on housing unit
8. What type of kitchen does the housing unit have?
[] 1 No kitchen
[] 2 A room used for traditional kitchen inside the housing unit
[] 3 A room used for traditional kitchen outside the housing unit
[] 4 A room used for modern kitchen inside the housing unit
[] 5 A room used for modern kitchen outside the housing unit
Question 8:- What type of kitchen does the housing unit have?
A housing unit is said to have a kitchen if it has a room primarily built to serve as a kitchen. Even though such a room at the same time serves men and animals to spend the night as long as it is primarily built to serve as a kitchen and is mostly used as a kitchen, the housing unit shall be considered as having a kitchen. However, if the housing unit has only one room that serves the household members to live in and at the sometime to cook their food, then the housing unit is considered as not having a kitchen. In order to assess the health impact of sharing the same room for living and cooking purposes, the enumerator should given emphasis as to where the kitchen is situated.
In Ethiopia, especially in urban areas, we can find both traditional and modern kitchens. Thus, the enumerator should have a clear understanding of the distinctions between the two, as given below, so as to mark the correct code of the given answer.
Private kitchen:- A kitchen is said to be private if it serves one or more households residing in the housing unit.
Shared kitchen:- A kitchen is said to be shared if it is shared with households residing in another housing unit.
Modern kitchen:- A kitchen is said to be modern if it at least has a pipe water and a sink and in addition if it has one or more of the following items for cooking; electric stove, butane stove, modern wood/charcoal stove,...etc.
Traditional kitchen:- A kitchen is said to be traditional if it has an open or closed stove with/ without a climery and wood, cow dung, charcoal, leaves,...etc. are used as cooking energy. A traditional kitchen does not have a pipe water and a sink.
The enumerator is, thus, required to mark the correct code among the given alternatives taking the above points into consideration.
1 = No kitchen
2 = A room used for traditional kitchen inside the housing unit
3 = A room used for traditional kitchen outside the housing unit
4 = A room used for modern kitchen inside the housing unit
5 = A room used for traditional kitchen outside the housing unit