Masculinity of the Head of Household Concept in the Population Census

This paper aims to explore the concept of household head in the Population Census whether gender preference exists or not. Furthermore, to evaluate the factors which affect to the conception of the head of household in each country being observed? The countries are Italy, Austria and Indonesia. In addition to that, the cultural context and socio-economic factors are also being observed in terms of inclusion in the main determination of conception. The literature review and some data evidences on some indicators will show to prove the assumption and hypothesis. The data source of this research paper is derived from IPUM-International Data, except for Indonesian Population Census data set which is obtained from BPS Statistics Indonesia. The main purpose of this research is to support better design of population census instrument for improvement of data quality and methods with gender sense design. The result of this research paper will be very useful in the refining concept of the head of household in the population census data collection. Finally, the gender bias in the population census of household head concept can be overcome and can depict the real condition of population demographic on gender basis.