Household-Level Concepts & Issues...
Old & New Households in 1994 and 2000
The concepts of old and new households first appeared in the data during the 1994 survey
and continued through the 2000 survey:
Old households are those households in 1994 and 2000
that existed in the village in the prior round(s) of data collection,
who had at least one member still living in the village in the current
round of data collection. For the 1994 survey, the household had
to exist in the 1984 survey to be considered an old
household. For the 2000 survey, the household had to exist
in either the 1994 survey or the 1984 survey.
New households are those households in 1994 and 2000
that were formed in the years between rounds of data
collection. For the 1994 survey, new households were those
households that formed between 1984 and 1994. For the 2000
survey, new households were those households that formed between 1994
and 2000.
In both 1994 and 2000, the old and new households
completed separate and appropriately named
questionnaires - Old Household Questionnaire and
New Household Questionnaire.
The Old Household Designated Individual
For old households in the 1994 and 2000 surveys, there could be one
and only one household that corresponded to each household from the
previous survey year(s). In order
to identify this one and only household, or
successor household,
the interviewers looked
for a designated individual on the household roster from the previous
survey year. The
search for the designated individual
started with the
senior
generation and went to the more junior
generations, and from the females to the males. For some
households, the search was a bit complex given the
various ways the households changed between the rounds of data
collection. Some households split into two or more households,
but the rule again was that one and
only one was
designated as the successor household. Once a designated
individual was found, then the household that s/he lived in was
designated as the successor
household. The successor household was then labeled an old household
and was administered the Old Household Questionnaire.
Combined Old Households in 1994 and 2000
In general, a combined old household is when two or more
households, in 1994 or 2000, have combined into one household since the
last
round of data collection. This concept is mainly a product
of the way the successor household was defined using the designated
individual (see description above). Basically, if the designated
individuals from
two or more households lived in the same household, then that household
became a combined old household. During the fieldwork, a separate Form 1
was completed for each household and only one set of Forms 2-6 were
completed for the entire combined household. Below is an
example of a combined old household in the 1994 data:
COMHH
|
CEP94
|
Q1
|
Q2
|
Q3
|
VILL84
|
HOUSE84
|
CEP84
|
FORM
|
HHTYPE94
|
1
|
101
|
0
|
98
|
8
|
04
|
042 |
101
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
102
|
1
|
67
|
2
|
04 |
042 |
102
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
103
|
2
|
32
|
1
|
04 |
042 |
103
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
104
|
2
|
23
|
1
|
04 |
042 |
104
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
201
|
1
|
37
|
2
|
04 |
042 |
201
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
202
|
1
|
28
|
2
|
04 |
042 |
202
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
203
|
3
|
26
|
1
|
04 |
042
|
203
|
1
|
3
|
8
|
401
|
4
|
5
|
2
|
|
|
|
2
|
3
|
8
|
402
|
4
|
14
|
2
|
04 |
035
|
106
|
2
|
3
|
2
|
403
|
1
|
11
|
2
|
04 |
060
|
103
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
491
|
3
|
36
|
1
|
04
|
060
|
101
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
492
|
3
|
38
|
2
|
04
|
060
|
102
|
1
|
3
|
There are several things to note from the roster:
- The COMHH column indicates from which 1984 household roster the
individual originated. A code of '1' means the individual came from
what has been termed the primary household. This is the household
that completed the first Form 1 during the fieldwork. A code of
'2' means the individual came from the secondary
household or the household that completed the second Form 1. There were no combined households with a tertiary household
in
1994, but there was one in the 2000 survey. The '8's are not
applicable codes as these two individuals are new to the household (not on
the primary's or secondary's household roster in 1984) and were listed
on Form 2.
- In the CEP94
column, there are
some unusual numbers to note at the bottom, '491' and '492.'
These numbers,
and all numbers in the 490's, were assigned after the fieldwork to
individuals from the secondary households who did not currently live
in the combined old household. These unusual CEP numbers only
occur in the 1994 data. In 2000, the CEP numbers are sequential for all members on the household roster.
- A quick look at the Q1-Q3 columns shows that
person '102' was the designated individual for the primary household
(i.e. oldest female living in the village), while person '403' was the
designated individual for the secondary household. She was
young, but her parents, '491' and '492', had migrated (Q1=3) outside the village.
- The 1984 identifiers - VILL84, HOUSE84, CEP84
- verify that the primary and secondary households link back to
two different households in 1984. Hence, this one combined
old
household was the successor household for these two 1984
households. In the 1994 household-level data, there are two sets
of linking identifiers for the combined households - VILL84 and HOUSE84 for the primary household and SVILL84 and SHOUSE84 for the secondary household. Please note that although person '402' links back to yet another 1984
household, she was not the designated individual for her original 1984 household.
- Finally, combined old households and individuals in the combined old households are always coded as '3' for the HHTYPE94 variable.
The 2000 combined old households are very similar to the above 1994
example. For both surveys, the number of combined old
households is a very small percentage of the total number of
households, although there was an increase from 1994 to
2000. There were 41 combined households in 1994 and
124 combined households in 2000.
Moved Households in 1994 and 2000
Moved households are those households
in 1994 and 2000 which existed in the village in the prior round(s) of
data collection that did not
have
at least one member still living in the village in the current round of
data collection. All of their members had either moved out
of the village or died since the last round of data
collection. In 2000, this included households that
moved since the 1994 survey as well as households that moved since the 1984
survey. In 1994, this included only households that moved since
the 1984 survey.
In the
2000 survey, an informant(s) from the village helped the interviewers complete the Moved
Household Questionnaire, called Form HM, which noted the location and
living status of each
of the former members of the household. In the 1994
survey, however, there was no formal questionnaire for the moved
households. Rather, the interviewers obtained information
from an informant(s) in the village and simply recorded notes on the photocopy
of the household's 1984 questionnaire.
These notes mainly pointed to the new location of the moved
household.
Given the different methods of obtaining information, the
identifiers for the moved households are not consistent from 1994
to 2000. Since there was no formal questionnaire in 1994,
the moved households in that survey year were not assigned 1994
identifiers. The only identifiers attached to these households
are their original 1984 identifiers. The 2000 moved
households, on the other hand, did have a formal questionnaire and
subsequently were assigned 2000 identiifiers.