Interviewer instructions
Question 3: What type of house is this (main) house/apartment?
In considering the current condition of the house, the sturdiness of the house depends on the materials used to construct it, and how long it has been occupied. Houses are divided into the following four main types:
- Solid houses: These include villas, multilevel houses or multilevel apartments, multilevel concrete houses, and flat roof houses. The investigator circles number "1" if the main house/apartment that the household currently uses is verified to be solid house.
- Semi-solid houses: These include houses with built/plywood/wooden frame walls, and tile/metal/shingle roofs, etc., or are built with equivalent materials. The investigator circles "2" if the main house/apartment the household currently uses is verified as semi-solid house.
- Sturdy wood frame, dried-leaves roof houses: These include houses with wood frames (wood poles completely supporting the roof), with limited use of over 15 years, and with roofs made of thatch/bamboo/oil-paper, etc. The investigator circles number "3" if the main house/apartment the household currently uses is verified as sturdy wood frame, dried-leaves roof house.
- Simple houses: These include houses that do not belong to one of the two groups above. This type of house has simple structure and is constructed with coarse materials. The wall of this type of house is usually made of clay/leaves etc. (not built walls, or wood frames) and the roof is usually made of thatch/bamboo/oil-paper etc.
All the tents, temporary camps, shelters under bridges, boxes that are used to live in, houses that are abandoned, uninhabitable, heavily damaged, and condemned but are still being used to live in at the time of the investigation, as well as mobile homes (tents, boats, carriages, etc.) are classified in this category.
The investigator circles "4" if the main house/apartment the household currently uses is verified to be a "simple house". Then ask and record Question 7, and skip Questions 4, 5, and 6.
Note: If a household's residence is a structure made up of different types (e.g. part of it is a solid house, another part is semi-solid, etc.), then designate the house type according to the part with the largest area.
