Variable HL3 : Relationship to the head

Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimal(s): 0
Range: 1-99
Valid case(s): 24669
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 99

File: hl

Universe
All household members
Source of information
Head of household

Categories

Value Category Cases
1 Head 6392 25.9%
2 Wife / Husband 4700 19.1%
3 Son / Daughter 7625 30.9%
4 Son-In-Law / Daughter-In-Law 1595 6.5%
5 Grandchild 2928 11.9%
6 Parent 711 2.9%
7 Parent-In-Law 64 0.3%
8 Brother / Sister 111 0.4%
9 Brother-In-Law / Sister-In-Law 12 0.0%
10 Uncle / Aunt 2 0.0%
11 Niece / Nephew 48 0.2%
12 Other relative 234 0.9%
13 Adopted / Foster / Stepchild 47 0.2%
14 Not related 199 0.8%
97 Inconsistent 0 0.0%
98 Don't know 0 0.0%
99 Missing 1 0.0%
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.

Literal question
What is the relationship of (name) to the head of household?
Interviewer instructions
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. 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.
Generated: OCT-19-2012 using the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit