Q. 2 Situation at the time of the census
49. For each person record the situation with respective to their legal residence at the census reference point ('0' hour on January 6 to 7, 1992).Each person's enumeration will be conducted, usually, at their legal or usual residence.
The legal residence represents the address registered on the identification card. A person could live for a certain period of time at a address different from the address registered on the identification card. This is the case for persons who are in other localities to study, to work or for other reasons. Generally these persons have inscribed in their identity card the residential visa for a limited duration. Usual residence in the census definition is the address, different from the legal residence, where the enumerated person is residing for at least 6 months (or intends to reside for 6 months) at the census reference point.
The enumerator will record both persons having their legal residence at the address of the enumerated household, as well as persons stating that this address is only their usual residence (even if it is not registered on the identity card).
For each person the situation at the census reference point has to be ascertained and recorded in Question 2 of Chapter IV of the PL form, indicating whether this address is the legal residence or the residence where the person was enumerated according to the above definitions.
At the census reference point, a person could be found in one of the following situations: present, temporarily absent, or gone for a long period of time:
Code 1 - Present. These are the persons who, at "0" hour on the night of January 6 to 7, 1992, were at their legal/usual residence.
The following will be considered as present at the census reference point:
Persons who have left for market shopping, for the mill, to hunt etc.
Persons who have left to another place (locality) but are on their way home by some means of transportation).
Children from nursery schools and weekly kindergarten.
Persons in compulsory military service or in military educational institutions.
Persons who are retained for investigations.
Soldiers.
Persons who are visiting someone living in the same locality.
Code 2 - Temporarily absent - Persons from the household who have gone to another locality within the country, who on the night of January 6 to 7, 1992, were absent for a short period of time (less than 6 months). In this situation are the persons who are gone for:
leave, vacation;
apprenticeship;
visits;
medical reasons (residents of medical facilities - in a hospital, sanatorium or maternity unit - for less than 6 months).
School children and students who, at the census reference point, had left the place where they were studying (to go to their parents' home, for vacation, an excursion, camping etc.) will be recorded temporarily absent in the place where they are studying (being recorded in the school residence, student hostels, boarding house, etc).
Codes 4, 5 and 6 - Absent, gone for an extended period of time (over 6 months) - Persons who, at the reference census point ("0" hour, January 6 to 7, 1992), were gone from the locality for an extended period of time (over 6 months). On the registration form, these persons are divided into three categories depending on the reason for their absence:
Code 5 - at school - includes students gone to study in other localities, regardless of how long they have been absent from the household.
Code 6 - other reason - includes persons gone from the locality for more than 6 months, being residents of medical facilities - hospitals, clinics, sanatoriums, old people's homes, schools for the handicapped, orphanages, hospital-hostels, school hostels, those visiting relatives, those detained in prisons, or special re-education schools.