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Definition of Household As Per Bangladesh Census

The document discusses different definitions and conceptualizations of households in Bangladesh. Households are difficult to define clearly as they are dynamic and changing units. Government definitions focus on policy issues while individuals within households may have differing interests. Studies show households are not just co-residents but have multiple, changing social relations and consumption patterns. Households cannot be understood solely based on co-residential status due to cross-cultural diversity influencing relationships.

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Definition of Household As Per Bangladesh Census

The document discusses different definitions and conceptualizations of households in Bangladesh. Households are difficult to define clearly as they are dynamic and changing units. Government definitions focus on policy issues while individuals within households may have differing interests. Studies show households are not just co-residents but have multiple, changing social relations and consumption patterns. Households cannot be understood solely based on co-residential status due to cross-cultural diversity influencing relationships.

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According to the author households are dynamic and changing, therefore it is difficult to define clearly.

The author examines the households of Bangladesh in two ways:

1. Definition used by the govt which they use for policy related issues.
2. Individuals in the same household has different interest in the decision making. This is further
divided into two sections:
 Using Ethnographic data (study of people and culture) of swadingram the author
concluded that households are not co-residents and share multiple interests.
 Links between migration and households

Assumptions made on peasant households:

 Co-residential and bounded units


 Poverty increases the number of nuclear families (couple and their depending children) which in
turn increases land fragmentation.

The author states that even though the households may live independently, the land and resources they
use for living remains the same. They use the same land to cultivate their food and use the same
resources to earn their living. It is not only the economic factor because of which they share the same
resources but ideology of staying jointly plays a big role.

Definition of household as per Bangladesh Census:

Group of people who eat food prepared from the same cooking pot and live together.

Conversely, where people live in the same dwelling unit but are not a part of the same eating
arrangement, they belong to separate households.

Arguments:

Co-residentiality alone cannot be used to understand the complex situation of Bangladesh households.

On the other hand, the consumption pattern and social relations of households tend to change due to
cross cultural diversity.

Village studies and household conceptualization:

 Conceptualized households in terms of eating and sleeping units.


 Jansen (1987) states that household are kinship based, consisting of several elementary families.
 Household may consist of incomplete families, incomplete families living with elementary
families or many elementary families living together (joint family).
 Van Schendel (1981) defines household as a part of living and eating together. A farmer living
separately from his wife will not be considered as a part of a same household as the farmer is
eating and living at his landlord’s residence.
 The author further states that reason behind splitting of households are associated with both
downward and upward mobility (job and marriage) which in turn contributes to dividing
households into separate contrasting groups (polarization).

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