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Appendix B.— Definitions and Explanations of Subject Characteristics
GENERAL B-1
HOUSEHOLD, RELATIONSHIP
TO HOUSEHOLDER, FAMILY,
AND GROUP QUARTERS ... B-1
Household B-1
Relationship to Householder . . B—
Family B—
SEX
Group Quarters B—
B-2
ETHNICITY B-2
AGE B-3
MARITAL STATUS B-3
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT B-3
YEARS OF SCHOOL
COMPLETED B-4
PLACE OF BIRTH B-5
CITIZENSHIP AND YEAR
OF IMMIGRATION B-5
PLACE OF BIRTH OF
PARENTS B-5
RESIDENCE IN 1975 B-5
ABILITY TO READ AND
WRITE B-5
LANGUAGE SPOKEN
AT HOME B-6
VOCATIONAL TRAINING .... B-6
FERTILITY B-6
REFERENCE WEEK B-6
LABOR FORCE STATUS B-7
LABOR FORCE STATUS
IN 1979 B-8
OCCUPATION, INDUSTRY,
AND CLASS OF WORKER ... B-9
Occupation Classification
System B-9
Industry Classification
System B—
Class of Worker B-10
INCOME IN 1979 B-11
Type of Income B— 1
Comparability B— 12
GENERAL
The 1980 census of Guam, American
Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and
the remainder of the Trust Territory of
the Pacific Islands was conducted through
direct interview. Enumerators visited and
listed every housing unit, asking the
questions as worded in the questionnaire
and recording the answers. Responses
were determined by the questionnaire
and the instructions given to the enumer-
ator. The definitions and explanations
given below for each subject are drawn
largely from various technical and
procedural materials used in the collec-
tion of the data. These materials helped
the census enumerators to understand
fully the intent of each question, and
thus to resolve problems on unusual
cases in a manner consistent with this
intent. Certain explanatory information
to assist the user in the proper use of the
statistics is also included.
Facsimiles of the questionnaire pages
containing the population questions used
to produce the data shown in this report
are presented in appendix E.
HOUSEHOLD, RELATIONSHIP
TO HOUSEHOLDER, FAMILY,
AND GROUP QUARTERS
Household
A household includes all the persons who
occupy a housing unit. A housing unit is
a house, an apartment, a group of rooms,
or a single room, occupied as a separate
living quarters or, if vacant, is intended
for occupancy as a separate living
quarters. Separate living quarters are
those in which the occupants live and eat
separately from any other persons in the
building and which have direct access
from the outside of the building or
through a common hall. The occupants
may be a single family, one person living
alone, two or more families living to-
gether, or any other group of related or
unrelated persons who share living
arrangements.
Because of the living arrangements
among extended families in certain
sections of American Samoa, additional
instructions were provided to help
enumerators determine whether a living
quarters met the housing unit definition.
Extended families make use of two
different types of living arrangements.
One type has a common kitchen surrounded
by several fales (structures)
where the members of the extended
family sleep. The meals are prepared in
the cooking fale used by all members of
the extended family. The family members
either eat their meals at their own
fale or together at one fale. In this
arrangement, each individual fale is
treated as a room within one housing
unit. The other type of living arrangement
has separate cooking facilities in
each fale, but the family members share
a common outdoor umu (oven). The
family members pick up the cooked food
from the umu and finish preparing and
eating their meals at their individual fale.
Since each fale has its own cooking
facility, it is considered a separate
housing unit. Guest houses are counted
as a room in the housing unit of a matai
(a chief), not as a separate housing
unit as was done in 1970.
The actual classification of a housing
unit as a household depends on entries in
question 2 and item B on the census
questionnaire. Item B on type of unit
or quarters was filled by an enumerator
or a census office clerk for each housing
unit or group quarters.
The measure "persons per household"
is obtained by dividing the number of
persons in households by the number of
households (or householders).
Relationship to Householder
The data on relationship to householder
were obtained from answers to ques-
tion 2, which was asked of all persons in
housing units.
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