Sociology 699J: Surveys in Developing Countries

Household rosters

Reading:

• Grosh and Glewwe, chapter 6
• DHS: pages 35-39

Purposes: What analyses depend on household rosters?

• Practical: questionnaire requirements
• Hypotheses about household structure
• Single mother households -> gender inequalities
• Joint families
• -> gender inequalities
• -> integenerational mobility
• wealth ->
• Poverty -> Doubling up
• Hypotheses about mortality
• Hypotheses about migration

HDPI-1

• Household definition:
• Topics:

Issues:

1. What is the definition of a household member?
• Servants?
• Visitors?
• Fostered children?
• Unrelated housemates?
• Boarders?
2. Should roster information be collected on non-members?
• Any of the above who are classified as non-members
• Non-resident (even deceased) parents?
• Out-migrants?
• Deaths?
• Split families?
• Other...
3. How much information is collected on the roster?
• Relationship to head; parents' or spouse's ID
• Marital Status
• Age
• Literacy & education
• Employment
• Caste
• Religion
• Other...

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