[Questions 16 and 17 were asked for household members age 0-17.]

17. Is [the respondent]'s biological father alive?

Empirical research findings in developing countries show that the number of orphans is increasing chillingly through time. This results a greater social and economic pandemonium in the society. Particularly an escalating number of children and youth become victims of the death of either one of their parents because of HIV/AIDS. To investigate the volume of the impact two successive questions are incorporated in the census questionnaire. These questions are referring to children and youth aged 0 to 17 years.

Question 17:- Is [the respondent]'s biological father alive?

This question is regarding the survivorship status of the biological father of children aged 0-17 years. All members of the household aged 0-17 years are eligible to this question. Based on the response to be obtained, code 1 will be given and marked to those children whose biological fathers are still alive at the time of enumeration. For those children whose biological fathers are reported to have died, code 2 will be assigned. In this case, enumerators should bear in mind that the question refers to only the biological fathers and it does not consider survivorship status of guardians or adopting fathers.

Note: - for those children aged 0-17 years whose mothers or fathers survivorship status is not known, code 2 should be taken and shaded on questions 16 and 17.