Section III: Questions related to households and dwellings
(For the places constituting a household, ask the questions between 1-12 in this section to the household head or to anyone who can answer instead.)
[Questions 1-12 were asked of housing units, per Section II.]

2. Is the household head at home now?

Section III: Questions related to households and dwellings

Attention! Section III is to be filled out for places where a household [housing unit] is constituted.

Questions 1 to 12 in this section are to be asked of the household head or someone able to answer in his/her place.

The definitions of household and household head are provided below:

Household [housing unit]: Social entities made up of one or more persons, whether bound by kinship or not, living in the same dwelling or in a portion of the same dwelling, participating in the provision of service or management to the household, who make no distinctions among themselves in terms of their income or expenses.

A household may consist of one or more people.

Pursuant to the definition of household provided above:

are considered to be a discrete household.

However, people living in the same house not sharing any kinship ties -- a student, a worker, etc. -- are to be considered as belonging to the same household. That person, from among these people declaring himself/herself to be the household head, or the one who is the oldest, or whoever is named in the rental contract of the dwelling they are living in, is to be regarded being the "Household head".

Household head: The household head is that person, from among members of the household who is the one generally responsible when it comes to the household's income and expenses and who is actually in charge of managing the household.



In the Census questionnaire; Section III: The section with questions related to household and dwelling, must be left blank, without fail.

Section III is not to be filled out for places such as a hotel, a motel, a hostel, a train, a boat, a bus, a train station, a terminal, a port, a hospital, a health clinic, a military post, a garrison, an officer's club, a boarding school, a dormitory, a nursing home, a child daycare facility, an orphanage, a jail, a reform school, and others (a factory, an official office, an embassy, etc.). For people located in such places, only the questions in Section IV "Questions related to individual characteristics" are to be asked. Section IV "Questions related to individual characteristics" is to be filled out separately for each individual.

If the household head recorded in the first question is at home on census day, an "X" is to be placed into the "Yes" box, and if not into the "No" box.