Interviewer instructions
I. Basic definitions useful for the Housing Census
26. Edifice: is an group of buildings or structures built on the same independent plot, having access to the street, regardless of the number of legal owners of the plot (e.g., a block of flats).
Consequently, an edifice may include one, two, or more than two buildings, e.g. a farm with a storehouse and stables on the same plot.
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27. Building: is each permanent and independent structure with walls and a roof, composed of one or more rooms or other space. As a rule, buildings have four (4) walls. But a permanent structure that is open on one or two sides is also considered a building, as long as it is roofed.
28. Dwelling: is defined, in general, as a place constructed to be distinct and independent, built for or converted to use as housing, or, if not intended for housing, actually used for housing during the time of the census.
Places intended for housing, but used during the time of the census for purposes other than housing, should not to be considered dwellings.
Consequently, as a dwelling may consist of:
a) An occupied or vacant dwelling, flat, room, or series of rooms.
b) An occupied hut, shed, gypsy caravan, boat, tent, hotel, collective residence, etc.
c) A storehouse, mill, cave or any other roofed place used for housing during the time of the census.
The defining element of a dwelling is its distinct and independent character. A space is considered distinct if it is surrounded by walls, fences, etc. and is covered by a roof, so that the individual or group of persons may be isolated from other persons to sleep or prepare and consume meals or be protected from the elements.
A space is considered independent if it has a direct entrance from the street, or has a common staircase, a passage or an arcade, so that the inhabitants may come and go without having to pass through the space occupied by another household.
29. Dwellings are classified as regular, irregular or collective.
30. Regular dwelling: is a permanent and independent structure, composed of at least one regular room, that is intended for use as a residence for a household.
31. Regular room: is considered a space inside the building with walls at least 2 meters high, with an area of at least 4 square meters, with a shape that can accommodate a regular bed, and that has a window or window-paned door for light to enter from the outside.
32. Irregular dwellings: the following types of [irregular] dwellings are to be included in the census.
a) Other spaces intended for housing: are structures (such as sheds and huts) built, without any formal design, out of salvaged and cheap material, which should be included if they are inhabited at the time of the census.
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b) Other spaces not intended for housing: are spaces such as stables, barns, mills, garages, storehouses, offices, shops and basements which are not regular dwellings and which were neither constructed for or converted to that purpose, but which were inhabited at the time of the census by one or more households.
Caves inhabited during the time of the census are included in this category.
c) Mobile home: is a type of lodging suitable for transport due to its construction (caravan or tent) or used as a mode of transport (ship, yacht, boat, barge, or rover's wagon), which was intended for housing and was inhabited at the time of the census.
Gypsies' encampments are included in this category.
33. Collective dwellings: hotels (a), collective residences (b), and temporary quarters (c) are included in this category. [omitted, detailed definitions of a, b and c].
43. Question 1, Type of dwelling
[Omitted, question 1 is repeated]
The definitions of each type of dwelling are given in paragraphs 28-33.
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Dwellings of types 2 through 5 [that is, dwellings other than regular dwellings] are to be enumerated only if they are inhabited. In these cases, only questions 1-10 should be completed.
Give only a single answer to question 1.
