# Avoid duplicate household registration by CHPs

**URL:** <https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/avoid-duplicate-household-registration-by-chps/1514>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/avoid-duplicate-household-registration-by-chps/1514 "2021-10-13T06:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonathan](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/jonathan/32/620_2.png) [@jonathan](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/jonathan)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/avoid-duplicate-household-registration-by-chps/1514/1 "2021-10-13T06:08:00Z")

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Is there a way we can uniquely ID households registered by a particular CHP so as to avoid scenarios where CHPs re-register the same HH more than once.

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**Author:** ![samuel](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/samuel/32/43_2.png) [@samuel](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/samuel)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/avoid-duplicate-household-registration-by-chps/1514/2 "2021-11-01T07:36:41Z")

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Thanks for the question @jonathan.

One way I can think of is assigning each household head (primary contact) an ID outside of the CHT platform and using that ID as a unique registration field. Of course, this doesn’t stop another health worker from registering the same household with a different household head.