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MICS

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2014

Zimbabwe, 2014
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
United Nations Children’s Fund, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency
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Relationship to the head (HL3)

Data file: hl

Overview

Valid: 65336
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
What is the relationship of (name) to the head of the household?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Head 15686
24%
2 Spouse /Partner 8189
12.5%
3 Son / Daughter 24287
37.2%
4 Son-In-Law / Daughter-In-Law 808
1.2%
5 Grandchild 8785
13.4%
6 Parent 354
0.5%
7 Parent-In-Law 98
0.1%
8 Brother / Sister 1108
1.7%
9 Brother-In-Law / Sister-In-Law 294
0.4%
10 Uncle / Aunt 108
0.2%
11 Niece / Nephew 2057
3.1%
12 Other relative 2026
3.1%
13 Adopted / Foster / Stepchild 585
0.9%
14 Servant (Live-in) 511
0.8%
96 Other (Not related) 420
0.6%
97 Inconsistent 18
0%
98 DK 1
0%
99 Missing 1
0%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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You should begin by saying:
First, please tell me the name of each person who usually lives here, starting with the head of the household.

List the head of the household in line 01. List all household members (HL2), their relationship to the household head (HL3), and their sex (HL4). Then ask:
Are there any others who live here, even if they are not at home now? If yes, complete the listing for questions HL2-HL4. Then, ask questions starting with HL5 for each person at a time.

Enter the code corresponding to how the person listed is related to the head of the household. Use the codes at the bottom of the Household Listing Form. Be particularly careful in doing this if the respondent is not the head of the household. Make sure that you record the relationship of each person to the household head, not the relationship to the respondent. For example, if the respondent is the wife of the head of the household and she says that Sola is her brother, then Sola should be coded as '09' ('Brother-in-law / Sister-in-law'), not as '08' ('Brother / Sister'), because Sola is a brother-in-law of the head of the household. Be very careful in obtaining this information correctly, since respondents tend to provide the relationship of the person to themselves, rather than to the head of the household.

If the head of the household is married to a woman who has a child from a previous marriage, that child's relationship to the head of the household should be coded as '13' ('Adopted/foster/stepchild'). If a household member is not related to the head of household, such as a friend who lives with the household, enter '14' ('Not related'). Enter '98' if the respondent doesn't know the relationship of a household member to the head of household.
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