ABSTRACT
Large households whose members are related by actual or fictitious kinship are common in all strata of the population, although the size, composition, and functions of the household differ from one community to another, reflecting both social class divisions and tribal characteristics. Households containing simple nuclear families, consisting of the man, his wife, and their children, are unusual in all communities and social strata. The household, for the purposes of our survey, consisted of all persons living in each of the fifty houses selected from each of the eight residential areas. Of the 400 nuclear households, only five contained adults unrelated by kinship to the household head or his wife. Two of these—the households of craftsmen in Vaitown—contained apprentices, one a housekeeper, and two contained persons whose relationship to the household head was explained as 'church people', i. e. fellow churchmen.
