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Areas that did not meet this categorization were classifi ed as rural.
4. Private (convential) Household
A household consists of one or more persons who usually share their living
quarters and share their principal meals.
5. Other Household
Sometimes a group of people live together but cannot be said to belong to
a “conventional” household. Examples are dormitories, hospitals, schools/
colleges, prisons, etc.
6. Structure
For 2010 TLS Census purposes, a structure constitutes a building or part of a
building used for residential purposes.
7. Housing unit
This is a place of abode or residence with a “private entrance” and occupied
by one or more households. All private households live in housing units.
There were some cases where many housing units were within a structure.
8. Age:
Age is the number of years a respondent has lived up to his/her last
birthday. The age was rounded down, or in other words, it refers to the
respondent’s age at his/her last birthday. When the age was not known,
interviewers were trained to use other ways of establishing the age of the
respondent, including calendars of events, conversation tables, administrative
documents, etc. The interpretation of age information is given below:-
a. The 0-1 year olds would be those whose age were less than one year
b. The 1-year-olds would be those aged 1 year or more but less than 2
years
c. 0 - 4 years age group would be those aged less than 5 years.
d. 5 - 9 years age group would be those aged 5 years and more but less than
10 years
e. The group 75+ included those aged 75 years or older
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9. Marital Status:
It is distinguished amongst:
a. Single/never married
b. Married
c. Widowed
d. Divorced
e. Separated
10.Religion: Religion is defi ned as a particular system of belief in God or “gods”.
The categories identifi ed included Catholic, Protestant/Evangelical, Islam,
Buddhist, Hindu, Traditional and other religion.
11. Mother Tongue/ethnic affi liation: This is the language a person identifi es
with or speaks most of the time. A list of all the 32 languages spoken in the
country was prepared and used. For non-Timorese people, the person’s main
language was recorded.
12. Disability: Disability is a physical, sensory, mental or other impairment,
including a visual, hearing or physical disability, which has a substantial long
term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out usual day to day
activities; including caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking,
seeing; hearing; speaking, breathing, learning, or working and interacting
with other persons.
The diffi culties covered in the 2010 census include the following;
a. Walking diffi culty (wheel chairs, crutches, limping, problems climbing
steps);
b. Seeing diffi culty (low vision, blind, if the person is using glasses and
doesn’t have problems when wearing glasses and has glasses then he
does not have a problem);
c. Hearing diffi culty (partially or completely deaf)
d. Mental/Intellectual diffi culty (slow learning development making it
hard to compete with age mates at school, other mental condition, crazy)
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