Question pretext
It is MOST IMPORTANT that instruction 2a (ii) be read for the definition of a family.
1. Number of members in the family – Include ALL members of the family including absentees, but not independent children who are permanently living elsewhere. Children at boarding school, university or undergoing military training must be included:
Interviewer instructions
2a (ii) Each family must be enumerated on a separate questionnaire. A person who is not a member of a family may, however, be enumerated with the family on one questionnaire. See (iii) below. For census purposes a family is defined as:
· A husband and wife (including a couple living together as husband and wife without
being lawfully married); or
· A father and mother with one or more unmarried children; or
· A father with one or more unmarried children; or
· A mother with one or more unmarried children.
The expression “children” includes stepchildren and adopted children. However, as far as Parts C and D are concerned, foster-children must not be regarded as family members.
Married children constitute separate families and even if such married children are living with their parents, they must be enumerated on a separate questionnaire.
(iii) A person who is not a member of a family (including a relative of the head or wife, such as a widowed mother, a divorced father, a brother, an uncle, etc.) and does not wish to be enumerated with the family, must obtain and fill in a separate questionnaire.
