Interviewer instructions
I. Basic definitions useful for the Housing Census
51. Edifice: is an ensemble of buildings or off-hand structures built on the same independent plot, having access to the street, regardless of the number of the plot legal owners (e.g. a block of flats). Consequently, an edifice may include one, two or more buildings, e.g. a farm with the storehouse and stables on the same plot, a factory with many buildings built on the same plot etc.
52. Building: is every permanent and independent structure having walls and roof, composed of one or more rooms or other space (i.e. of area more than 4 m2).
As a rule, buildings are having four (4) walls. But as a building is also considered a permanent structure that may be open in one or two sides as long as it is roofed (e.g. car workshop).
53. Dwelling: is, in general, a place distinct and independent from construction, built or converted in order to be used for housing, or if it were not intended for housing, it was used so during the census taking.
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Places intended for housing, but used during the census taking on the whole for other purposes and not housing, are not to be considered as dwellings.
Consequently, as a dwelling is considered:
a) An occupied or vacant dwelling, flat, room or series of rooms.
b) An occupied hut, shed, rovers' wagon, boat, tent, hotel etc.
c) A storehouse, mill, cave or any other roofed place used for housing during the census taking.
The basic element of a dwelling is its "distinct and independent" characteristic. 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 in order to sleep or prepare and have his meals or be protected from the elements.
A space is considered "independent" if it has a direct entrance from the street, or a common staircase, a passage or arcade, when the inhabitants may come and go without having to go through the space occupied by another household.
54. Dwellings are distinguished as regular, non-regular and collective ones.
55. Regular dwelling: is considered the permanent and independent structure, composed of one regular room at least and intended to be used as a residence of a household.
56. Regular room: is considered the space inside the building that is 2m high and of area 4m2 at least and of shape allowing for a regular bed. In this respect, regular bedrooms, dining rooms, drawing-rooms, habitable basements and attics, servants' rooms, kitchens and other separate spaces used or intended for housing are considered as rooms.
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Corridors, verandas and halls are not considered as rooms. (* Halls that commune (lighted and aired directly from the outside grounds) and satisfy the conditions of a regular room are considered in exemption as rooms).
Spaces intended for laundries, baths, storerooms and toilets are not considered as rooms even if are of area more than 4 sq.m.
57. Non-regular dwellings: the following cases of dwellings are to be included in the census only if they were found to be inhabited during the census taking.
a) Other spaces intended for housing: are considered the structures constructed with off-hand and cheap material, such as huts, sheds, booths, without any preconceived design, in order to be inhabited by a household
b) Other spaces not intended for housing: are considered spaces like stables, barns, mills, garages, storehouses, offices, shops and basements that are not regular dwellings, nor were constructed or converted as such, but were inhabited during the census taking by one or more households.
In this category, the caves that were inhabited during the census taking are included.
c) Mobile home: is a type of lodging whose transport is possible due to its construction (caravan or tent) or it is a mobile unit (ship, yacht, boat, barge or rover's wagon), intended for housing.
Gypsy encampments are included in this category.
58. Collective dwellings: in this category the hotels (a), collective residences (b) and temporary quarters (c) are included.
68. Question 1, Type of dwelling
[Omitted, question 1 is repeated]
The definitions of each type of dwelling are given in paragraphs 53-58.
