Literal question
2. Occupancy of a private dwelling
[] 1 Occupied
[] 2 Occupied but inhabitants absent
Unoccupied (family house, rancho, apartment, room in a tenement)
[] 3 For rent
[] 4 For sale
[] 5 Summer home
[] 6 Other reason
For an occupied dwelling classified in one of the boxes 1 through 5 "Dwelling type", ask questions 3 through 15
Interviewer instructions
Question #2
Occupancy of the private dwelling
a. How to carry out the investigation
The first item to be investigated is whether or not the dwelling is found to be "occupied" (by occupants who are present or absent) or "unoccupied" at the time of enumeration. If the dwelling is uninhabited, the reasons for this condition are investigated only for "family houses", shacks, huts, apartments, and rooms in tenements. Investigating the reasons for the condition of "unoccupied" brings up the problem of finding a qualified informant, especially when the owner does not live in the building where the dwelling is located and it is not possible to find him/her. In these cases, the information should be requested from a person who lives next to the unoccupied dwelling, on the condition that he/she has knowledge of the reason.
b. How to record the data
Once the occupancy has been determined, the corresponding box is marked.
c. Example:
[These instructions refer to a graph of question 2 on the census form]
Reminder: questions 3-15 only correspond to dwellings with occupants who are present and that fall in the categories 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 of question #1: dwelling type.
