Literal question
Ask questions 3 through 14 only for those dwellings, with inhabitants present, that are classified in boxes 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 of question number 1, Type of Dwelling.
4. Ownership
[] 1 Owned
[] 2 Owned, mortgaged
Monthly mortgage payment B./ ____
[] 3 Rented
Monthly rent B./ ____
[] 4 Ceded
[] 5 Condemned
Interviewer instructions
Question 4 Ownership
Mark box [] 1 (Owned) when the dwelling that the family occupies is owned. The dwelling is considered "owned" by the owner of the building and the land or only the building. Include as owned a dwelling constructed with their own resources, those [dwellings] built with mortgage loans already paid for or those acquired through other means.
Mark box 2 (Owned mortgaged dwelling) when the dwelling has been built by means of mortgage loans from the Social Security Fund, the Savings Bank, the National Bank, collective mortgages and other credit institutions and have not been totally paid for.
Include also as owned mortgaged those dwellings whose original mortgage has been totally paid for but that is found to be committed to a new mortgage that has not been paid for yet.
For the cases of the mortgaged dwellings, write down in Balboas, in the corresponding space, the monthly sum that is paid on the mortgage.
Example: B/65.00, B/150.00, B/275.00, etc
Mark box 3 (Rented) when the unit of habitation is rented that is that the right to use it is paid for and write down in Balboas in the corresponding space the monthly sum that is paid for rent.
Example: B/5.00, B/25.00, B/55.00, B/135.00, etc.
Mark box 4 (Ceded) when the dwelling is ceded, or that is, when the occupants are not the owners and do not pay rent or mortgage. Generally, persons who inhabit these dwellings are relatives of the owner or the dwellings have been ceded for reasons of work.
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Example: some worker's houses of the Chiriqui Land Company, the cleaner of an apartment building who is given the room for cleaning the building.
Mark box 5 (Condemned) when the dwelling that the family occupies is condemned or that is, it is considered uninhabitable by the Office of Safety, the Fire Department, the Department of Municipal Engineering, the Department of Sanity of the Ministry of Health and that because of its poor state and hygienic and deteriorative condition constitute grave danger for the security and health of its tenants. The tenants do not pay rent and assume the expenses of water and light.
