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Part-time HH members
Q. What do you do with relatives that are there 30-50% of the time ‘eating from the Household pot’ but not for the remainder of the time. What household size figure do we take?
A. Any time you have household members away, or additional members eating from the household pot, this is calculated either as a benefit or a cost to the household budget (respectively). Specifically, you would include migratory relatives in the household figure, but count any time they are away as direct food from ‘labor migration’. In the case of children eating at relatives’ houses for significant periods of the year, you can count this as ‘child away’. For example, for a household of 6 people with one person away for 5 months per year, roughly 7% of annual food can be accounted for by that person while away (5/12 x 1/6 /100 = 7%). So this is represented on the sources of food bar chart as 7% = “direct food from migratory labor”. Although the alternative scenario – having additional relatives eating from the household pot - is less common (only because it is less possible to generalize this activity to the entire wealth group), you would treat these additional relatives as a cost to the household food budget, representing this either on the expenditure side, or by increasing the required kcals per day to incorporate their extra consumption and then calculating the % food energy required against this new figure.
