Interviewer instructions
Title XII: State of preservation of the dwelling
155. Under this title information should be registered about:
a) The structure of a dwelling, understood to be the conditions of it (walls, roofs and floors, fundamentally).
b) The existence or not of dampness in a dwelling.
Structure
156. Write down the corresponding box according to the following guidelines:
a) Good - Every dwelling that preserves its own conditions of inhabitation of its type and of the materials used. It can be old as long as its conditions have not perceptibly been worn.
b) Average - Any building with:
(i) Walls that show faults in preservation concerning any aspects under consideration, but not affecting its inhabitability. Examples: humidity stains, some fallen stucco, some superficial cracks.
(ii) Roofs with repaired and repairable faults that do not show holes, advanced rusting, or unevenness. Examples: Broken roofs, bent boards, occasional drips, drips in the chimneys.
(iii) Floors that show repairable faults in preservation like detachments, burns, cracks, breaks, but there are never dangerous breaks, uneven floors, apparent humidity, rotting.
An earthen floor is always acceptable if it is hard, is level and does not have humidity (mud).
c) Bad - Any dwelling with:
(i) Cracked, collapsing walls, those totally or partially detached from other walls in a dwelling, with holes, detached pieces, soaked or eaten away bases, rotten wood, etc.
(ii) Uneven roofs, or those with holes and are partially destroyed, boards eaten away by rust, a majority of broken tiles, rotting in the joints, lack of adequate holding in the boards (stone over the roof).
(iii) Dangerously unleveled floors that move when someone walks on them. Rotten and moth-eaten boards. Inexistent pieces of pavement; holes, humidity or mud in earthen floors.
157. It is evident that the existence of all of the above deficiencies are not necessary to qualify a dwelling as average or bad.
