Leone, T., E. Coast & S. Randall (2009) "Did you sleep here last night? The impact of the household definition in sample surveys: a Tanzanian case study" Presentation at British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference, Brighton, 9th - 11th September, 2009.

1. Did you sleep here last night? The impact of the household definition in sample surveys: a Tanzanian case study Tiziana Leone, Ernestina Coast (LSE) Sara Randall (UCL) Funded by ESRC survey methods initiative

11. Fieldwork scenarios: * 152 would have been captured in other households 1.27 7.18 27% 46.3% 5.64 421* 133 Census definition 1.20 7.17 23.1% 41.9% 5.86 490 104 DHS definition 1.11 6.67 2% 27.5% 11.23 573 52 Fieldwork Dependency ratio HHH mean years education Single person HH Percentage female Headed Household mean size Number of individuals Number of households

14. How do different samples affect the gender composition of the household?

15. Where do they live?

16. How wealthy are they?

17. Results DHS data analysis-scenarios 2.4 4.78 39.99 51.8 4.33 1.55 21.74 93.2 de facto 2.42 4.58 45.59 61.2 3.01 1.47 23.37 24.2 Female HHH 1.35 1.26 Dependency ratio 2.3 4.94 44.68 50.8 - 25.09 96.3 de jure 2.48 5.13 44.73 51 4.88 25.05 Total Sample # people per room household size Age head of HH % female population Mean years of HH education mean age sample % included

18. Light at the end of the tunnel?