Interviewer instructions
Questions 3 to 14 only are asked at dwellings with occupants present classified in one of the circles 01 to 05 of question Number 1 "Type of Dwelling".
Question Number 3: Ownership of the dwelling
Is your dwelling. . .
Read the options and mark only one circle according to what the persons indicates. Keep in mind the following definitions:
a. Mortgaged (Circle 1)
It refers to the dwelling that has been built by means of mortgage loans from the Social Security Fund, from the Savings Bank, from the National Bank, collective mortgages and from other credit institutions and are not totally paid for.
Include also as a mortgage a dwelling whose original mortgage has been totally paid, but that is found to be involved with a new mortgage and it has not been paid yet.
For the case of the mortgaged dwellings, mark circle 1 and write down in Balboas in the corresponding space, the monthly sum that pays the mortgage. Write down whole numbers, omitting cents. Put 0 in front of the mortgage when it is less than B/1,000.
Examples:
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b. Rented (Circle 2):
When the habitation unit is rented or that is the right to use it is paid for, mark circle 2 and write down in Balboas in the corresponding space the monthly sum that is paid for rent, omitting cents. Put 0 in front of the rent when it is less than B/1,000.
Examples:
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If the person pays the mortgage or rent every other week, multiply this amount by two.
Example:
In a dwelling that is being enumerated in San Miguelito, the head of the home informs that he is charged B/55.00 for two weeks of mortgage payment. The information should be written down as such:
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c. Owned (Circle 3):
The dwelling is considered owned when occupied by the owner of the building and the land or only the building. Include as owned the dwelling built with their own resources, built through mortgage payments already paid for or rented or acquired through other means.
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d. Ceded (Circle 4):
It refers to a dwelling whose occupants are not owners and they do not pay any rent or mortgage. Generally the persons who inhabit these dwellings are relatives of the owner or have been ceded for work reasons.
Examples:
1) Some houses for workers of the Chiriquí Land Company.
2) The room that a cleaner occupies in a building as payment for doing the cleaning.
e. Condemned (Circle 5):
It refers to a dwelling 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.
