The extended family does not necessarily live in the same dwelling, but normally the members live close together and work in teams.
Whereas once several generations shared the same dwelling, more than half of all Chinese over the age of 60 now live separately from their adult children, according to a November report by China's National Committee on Aging, an advisory group to the State Council.
For the purpose of GLSS 5, a household is defined as a person or a group of persons, who live together in the same dwelling, share the same house-keeping arrangements and are catered for as one unit [10].
Note that the RLMS sample, which consists of people residing in the same dwelling units in each round, is unlikely to include illegal migrants or temporary (seasonal) labor migrants.
The address details for each of these offences were then checked to determine that each offence corresponded to the same dwelling, and to remove any that did not (e.g., where the same geographic coordinates referred to two different apartments within a high rise building).
The concomitant growth of the family or the accommodation of extended family members led to erecting more covered spaces within the same dwelling plot, and therefore, a central open space or a courtyard was shaped in similitude to other settlement throughout the Middle East.
If more than one household was present in the same dwelling, one was randomly selected.
A complex household can be, for example, a group of students occupying the same dwelling or two familiar groups sharing the same location.
In some other cultures the basic household can have completely different structure (for example many generations sharing the same dwelling), and therefore this kind of approach can give rise to potential bias without any additional information about the structure of complex households.
If more than one household was present in the same dwelling one was randomly selected.
