How do we determine ID for households and members; in fact, whether we do that, or it goes automatically?

[Kal_Lam]

Welcome to the community, @jovana! Please be informed that there are multiple ways to manage ID for households. It basically depends upon how the researcher wishes to manage this. Maybe the following approach would be helpful for you:

• The first approach is managing it manually, where the researcher allocates a unique household number while during the sampling process.
• The second approach is assigning it during data collection (while collecting data). You could achieve this by following the instructions outlined in the support article Creating Unique Serial Numbers in Forms. Or, you could also design your survey project as outlined in the post discussed previously:

Automatically displaying unique ID number

Hi @Dhamai, Welcome to the community! Please see the image below to create an automatic display of the household identification number (you will need to do this in the xlsform): [Picture%201] You will then see the household identification number in the output as follows: [Picture%202] You could also have a look at the support article on How to: Create Sequential, Unique Serial Numbers.

• And the third approach is taking consideration of the _id as a household number which is provided by the system: