Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="NP01A040"><span class="em">Q.11 : Are any absent members in the household abroad?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1. Yes<br />[] 2. No<br />[] 3. Don't Know</div><br /><br />If 2 or 3 members are absent, then personal description question should not be asked<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="NP01A040"><span class="em">Absent from the household or gone abroad </span>: If any member of the household, whose enumeration is being done, has left within the last 6 months or more, or has left a few days before the count but for the duration of 6 months or more, he/she is absent and has gone abroad. Those member/s who have left for less than 6 months for religious visits, health treatment, tourism/visit, or business purpose need not to be included in "Gone Abroad". They should be regarded as in the household and counted.<br /><br />The information regarding whether the member of the household has gone abroad or not should be taken. If anyone has gone abroad, code 1 should be marked and a detail description should be written, as stated in Q.12. If nobody has gone abroad, then code 2 should be marked. If the member of the household is absent but proper information is not known regarding where he/she has gone, then in that case 3 ("Don't Know") should be marked. Q.12 need not to be asked if code 2 or 3 is marked in Q.11.<br /><br />If the member of the household who has gone abroad has daughter/son born abroad, in such case the counting of son/ daughter need not to be included.<br /></svar>
