Interviewer instructions
1. Type of dwelling
What is a dwelling? It is a room or collection of rooms and its outbuildings occupying a building or a structurally separate part of the building that have been constructed or modified with the intent of being inhabited by people, and, on the date of the survey, is not being used exclusively for other purpose. In order to be considered a dwelling, the set of rooms and outbuildings must have a separate and independent access.
The response to this question is established according to the following criteria:
House: an individual or independent construction, constructed to accommodate people, whose access is direct from the outside of the dwelling.
Apartment: an individual or independent construction, constructed to accommodate people, whose access is from a hallway, corridor, or other common space share with one or more apartments.
There is a distinction between apartments or houses in residential complexes and apartments in a multi-story buildings or single-story buidlings, since these characteristics are associated with different housing values. A residential complex is considered a collection of dwellings that share common services (gardens, security services, etc.). In the case of apartments, in order to be considered a residental complex, in addition to sharing these services, there must be more than one block of flats. Keep in mind that the term is not applied solely to those constructed by the Mortgage Bank but also to those dwellings that fulfill the mentioned requirements.
Building not for residential purposes: This corresponds to the buildings in which economic activities are developed or those constructed for such activities and not transformed in a dwelling. These are distinguished from the previous case in which the part occupied by people is not found delineated by stonework walls from the rest of the premise.
