Interviewer instructions
Question No. 1--Type of Dwelling
The different types of private and collective dwellings are defined below. You should classify each house that you are responsible for enumerating and mark the appropriate choice from the 14 types of dwelling described.
A. Private Dwellings
01) House: A permanent building; separate and independent, with a direct entry from the street, garden or lot (cottage, bungalow, duplex, houses under constant construction, hut).
02) Apartment: Is located in a permanently constructed building; has a separate entrance from a hallway, stairway, or other common space in the building or direct access from the street. The occupants can come and go without passing through a premises occupied by others.
Apartments can also be found in commercial buildings and as separate and independent areas within institutions (apartment for the Director of a hospital or the caretaker of a commercial building).
03) Tenement (high-density slum) dwelling: Is a room or group of rooms that make up an independent dwelling. They are located along a common-use hallway and have shared facilities (generally in an old house).
04) Shack, rustic hut, or cabin: Is typically a rural building, separate or independent, made of light material (clay with straw, reeds, dried stone).
05) Improved shack [Mejora]: Is a construction made of light material put up to take care of a construction site or construction materials, etc., and is generally occupied by the caretaker and family.
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06) Squatter Dwelling: Is a temporary building made from waste materials (cardboard, tin, waste construction materials). They make up groups of dwellings located in uncultivated areas belonging to others where there is neither urbanization nor hygienic conditions for living there. It is also possible to find squatter dwellings in isolated areas or constructed close to other dwelling groups.
07) Dwelling in a structure or other premises not meant for residential purposes: This group includes dwellings under construction, wineries, granaries, garages, warehouses, etc., in other words, buildings that were not originally meant for residential purposes.
Included in this group are caves, mine entrances, etc.
08) Boxcar, boat, tent, etc.: Are types of mobile lodging or lodging made to be transported.
09) Other types of private dwelling: In this category you should include all other types of dwelling besides those already specified.
B. Collective Dwellings
10) Hotel, Motel, Inn: Is a dwelling where temporary or permanent lodging, with or without food, is provided. A hotel, motel, or inn is a building meant as a collective dwelling.
11) Boardinghouse or Guesthouse: Has the same structural characteristics that private dwellings have. If the dwelling has 6 or more boarders it is considered a boardinghouse or guesthouse.
If the dwelling has 5 or fewer boarders it should be recorded as a private dwelling.
Boardinghouses and guesthouses with a municipal license will always be considered collective dwellings, regardless of the number of boarders.
12) Lodge: Is a dwelling meant to provide nighttime lodging. It is characterized by the renting of beds by the night.
13) Institutions: Are dwellings that are used as a place of lodging by a group of unrelated people who live together for reasons of health, religious life, discipline, work, etc. (hospitals, boarding schools, barracks, prisons, etc.).
14) Other types of collective dwellings: Other types of collective dwellings not among those already listed should be specified in this category.
