Housing in Tanzania (Household Data)

Housing conditions in rural areas of Tanzania. Issues: l.) Detailed demographic informations on household members and main income sources. 2.) Description of housing and equipment: material; plaster and paint; size; walls; roof; windows; doors; floor; toilet; washing facilities; use of all buildings, rooms and surrounding areas; location of preparing meals and cooking; description of eating place; cooking and fire materials; description of sleeping places; living rooms; sources and storage of water; fumitory and keeping of clothes; consumer durables; storage of tools. 3.) Animals: current number of animals and changes during last year, labourers who help with the animals; gross cash income from sales of animals and products. 4.) Crops and agricultural activities: area under cultivation; amounts of crops harvested, consumed and sold; costs; storekeeping and problems; distribution and takings; number of trees or acreage, year of latest plantation; labourers in agriculture. 5.) Income and property Situation: sources of income in cash or kind; kind of business; income during the last year; savings and bank accounts; loans; money or things borrowed; payments to a pension fund and amount of savings there; expenditures during the last week. 6.) Establishment of the dwelling and construction of the house: year of Start and duration of construction work; year of buying the house; house ownership and possession of other houses; year and procedure of buying the plot; community or district regulations and considerations concerning construction; event that determined the beginning of construction; construction work that has been done by household members; other people who participated in the construction and work done by fundis; cost of materials, transportation and fundis; total costs; actual value of the house when selling or renting it; financing of construction; repayments which still are to make; problems in obtaining materials or tools and problems with fundis; way of solving such problems; estimated durability of house and weak points; repairs, changes and improvals at the house.