Find out if the housing unit is provided free by the employer/friend or relative of any member of the household. If the housing unit is provided by the employer, it may or may not involve payment of rent as sometimes employers charge full rent, sometimes a nominal rent and sometimes no rent at all. If the employer deducts any amount of money from the salary of any member of the household for rent, then the housing unit is not provided free.

When an employer provides a housing unit then it is not necessary to find out whether or not the employer is also the owner of that house/housing unit. For example, the housing unit may be owned by a private landlord but rented by a company which has provided this housing unit to its employee. As far as this household is concerned, the housing unit has been provided free by the employer.

If the housing unit is provided free by the employer (Yes employer- code 1) then skip to HH-11. If the response is "Yes", by friend or relative, then skip to A-1. If the response is "No", then you ask the next question. In either case, shade the appropriate code.