Interviewer instructions
Definition of household
40. For the purpose of enumeration, a difference is being made between private households which receive an envelope for private households and collective households which receive a person list for collective households.
What is a private household?
41. A private household consists of family members living together and all other persons living with them (e.g. maids, apprentices, lodgers, paying guests, permanent guests, and nurses).
42. Lodgers or sub-tenants do not form a separate household but belong to the host household; only in cases where they cannot be assigned to a household because they occupy rooms which belong to a business, doctor office, etc. are they to be treated as separate households.
43. Single persons and persons not related to each other form a household if they live in their own closed dwelling or single room which they have rented from the landlord and which is separate from his dwelling.
44. Examples of households
A family in a rented dwelling
A farmer with family members and hired persons in the farm or in annex buildings
A house owner and the lodgers who live in the same dwelling
Several persons who have rented and occupy jointly a dwelling
A single person who has rented a room directly from the house owner
A married couple who has rented part of a dwelling directly from the house owner and share a kitchen
Persons have rented basement or attic rooms which are separate from the dwelling of the owner
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45. Examples of persons who do not form a separate household:
Lodger/subtenant in the dwelling of the landlord
Tenant of an attic room which belongs to the dwelling of the landlord;
All those included in collective households.
What is a collective household?
46. Collective households are groups of persons who reside in hotels, boarding houses, care facilities, boarding schools, hospitals, company dormitories, etc.
47. Hotels, inns, boarding houses
Owners and managers of hotel, inns, boarding houses, hostels, etc form with their family and domestic staff their own private households. The same applies to staff members who have their own household. Those persons will be enumerated with the private household questionnaires and are not to be entered on the collective household list.
Other staff members together with the guests form a collective household. However, only if there are 3 or more persons to be listed is a collective household list to be used; otherwise they are added to the private household of the owner or manager.
48. Institutions and care facilities
For the purpose of the census, these include the following:
Hospitals, sanatoria, clinics, care facilities, asylums, home for the blinds or deaf, boarding schools, children homes, orphanages, poorhouses, old age homes, cloisters, prisons. Staff members living with their families in the institutions are enumerated as private households.
As a general rule, the questionnaires for the occupants are completed by the manager.
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49. Other collective households
That includes staff members that have common accommodation but do not own the house and cannot be assigned to a household, for example:
Four journeyman bakers accommodated in an apartment by the owner
Construction workers in barracks
Tourists in mass accommodations
If there is no owner or manager, the enumerator himself fills in the person list.
50. Military barracks and schools
Staff members living in the facilities having their own households are to be enumerated as private households. Soldiers and other military staff are to be enumerated at their home municipality.
