Section 3: Details of persons in the household
3. Residence status
[] Resident present on census day
[] Resident absent on census day
[] Visitor on census day
A. Usual member of a household
A person is said to be a usual member of the household if he/she lives at least six months continuously with the household. In addition, a person is considered to be a usual member of the household if he /she has intention to live with the household forever even though he/she lived with the household less than six months. Persons who left their household temporarily for less than six months are considered as usual member of their households. However, persons are not considered as usual members of the household if they left their households for six months or above, or who left their households for less than six months but they have intention to stay there for more than six months.
The following members of the household are considered as usual household members.
-All persons who lived with the household for at least six month during the census day.
-All persons who have intention to stay with the household for six months and above even though they stayed with the household for less than six months. For example, a woman married to a man and went to her husband home, during the census day, she is considered as a usual member of her husband's household even though the time since she has started to live with the husband is less than six months. In addition, a person who got job went to live with other household forever, he is considered as the usual member of this household where he is found during the census even through he is living with this household for less than six months.
House maids who usually stay the nights with the household and who do not have another residence.
-Persons who left their household temporary for less than six months: for example persons who are at annual leave, persons who went to another place for holiday, inpatient persons, persons who went to visit relatives and persons who went to other places in related to their businesses.
-All persons who don't have permanent residence and who live with the household during the census: For example if individuals do not have permanent residence but they live in various houses, they are considered to be usual member of the house hold where they are found during the enumeration day.
-Students:- Students who left their households, relatives or usual place of residence to attending their education in regular schools, colleges, universities, ... etc. should be counted in the place where they are attending their learning. During the enumeration, if the students went back to their households or relatives due to learning break, they should be enumerated by considering as usual members of their households. Student who are attending their education by hiring service houses or who live with relatives far away their usual households, they should be enumerated in areas they actually live during the census even though they commute weekly or monthly to bring their ration or to visit their households. However, students who commute daily to attend their education are considered as usual members of their households
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Orphanages, Boarding school students/ inmates of correctional facilities and other collective quarters.
Inmates of orphanages, Boarding school (including universities and colleges, which have lodging facilities), correctional facilities and other collective quarters (example: home for aged, monasteries ... etc.) should be enumerated as a member of the collective quarters during the census. However, person who are detained temporary in police station or in other temporal prison place should be counted as usual members of their households regardless the length of the time in these places.
B. Visitors
A visitor is any relative or non-relative person who is not a usual member of the household but spent the census night in the household.
Question 3:- Residence status
The residence status of all members of the household and visitors should be asked and the appropriate code should be shaded. The choices of the codes are given below.
-Resident present at the census day (usual member of the household who was present at the census day)
-Resident absent at the censes day (Usual member of the household who was absent at the census day
-Visitor (person who was not usual member of the household but spent the night with the household at the census day)
Remark:- Visitors should be listed after all usual members of the household has been listed and data for visitors will be collected only residence status, relationship, sex and age. The remaining questions (Questions) 7-32 and section 4) do not concern the visitors and should not record anything.