Definition
A group of persons who commonly live together and would take meals from a common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevented any of them from doing so. They may be a household of persons related by blood or a household of unrelated persons or having a mix of both. Example of unrelated households are boarding houses, messes, hotels residential hotels, rescue homes, jails, pagodas, etc. These are called institutional households.
Institutional households were not included in CIPS, 2004.