F - Living conditions
28. What is the tenure status of the household?
[] 1 Owner/ Purchaser
[] 2 Tenant
[] 3 Lodger
[] 4 Tied accommodation
[] 5 Other
Section F: Living Conditions
This section seeks information on the living environment and touches on such aspects as access to electricity and toilets, sources of drinking water etc.
Responses to Questions 28 to 33 are pre-coded and you have to shade the correct response.
Q28 Tenure status of the household
This refers to the arrangements under which the household occupies its living quarters in the nature of its right to be there. The categories, for which you are to shade the appropriate one, are:
1 Owner/purchaser
An owner or purchaser is one who owns the house or is in the process of buying it with a mortgage or through the Government's home ownership scheme or is renting to buy.
2 Tenant
A tenant occupies the whole dwelling unit and generally pays electricity and water charges to the urban authority as if she/he owned the property. The terms of renting are under a written agreement.
3 Lodger
A lodger rents whole/part of a dwelling unit, which belongs to an owner/purchaser or is under a tenant. Terms are not normally under a written agreement.
4 Tied accommodation
A person living in tied accommodation occupies it by virtue of his/her job. The accommodation belongs to the employer and is made available as part of terms of employment. If the person leaves the job, s/he is required to move out of the dwelling unit.
Examples of this type of tied accommodation include:
- Plantation and commercial farm compounds;
- Industrial and factory compounds;
- Domestic workers' quarters;
- Railways and other industrial accommodation;
- Staff houses provided in schools.
5 Other
This category includes those staying free in dwelling unit but constituting a separate household.