Interviewer instructions
6.2 Operating Instructions
In the 2011 Census, information is collected from all the private dwellings of the country. That way, the quantity and type of collective dwellings (hotels, elderly homes, prison establishments, etc.) are revealed.
A dwelling is any room or collection of rooms and their dependencies, that occupy a building or a separated part of a building, and that, because of its construction, transformation or refurbishment, is destined to be inhabited by people and that, at the moment of the census is not used totally for other ends.
For the purposes of the census, all fixed structures where a person or group of people habitually reside(s) is also considered a dwelling.
In order to be considered a dwelling, the collection of rooms and dependencies should necessarily have an independent access.
Independent access: This means that the people that live in the dwelling arrive to the dwelling without having to pass through the rooms of other dwellings. The dwellings can have direct access from the street or from corridors, hallways, or stairs used in common by all the habitants of other dwellings.
In order for a building under construction to be considered a dwelling it must have a finished roof and finished vertical enclosures including doors and windows. In any case, even if these conditions are not met, if at least one person habitually resides there, it is considered an occupied dwelling.
6.3 Type of Dwelling and Dwelling Occupation Conditions
According to the use that is being given it, the dwelling can be considered private or collective.
6.4 Private Dwellings and Collective Dwellings
A private dwelling is a dwelling constructed or designed to house one or more private households.
A private household is the collection of people with or without kinship relations that reside under the same roof, and that, at least for their alimentation, share a common source- they participate in a "common pot." A person that lives alone is also considered a private household.
A collective dwelling is the dwelling that houses or is designed to house a collective household.
A collective household is a collection of people generally not connected by kinship relations that share the dwelling because of work, medical attention, studies, military duties, religion, prison, etc.
If, within the collective dwelling, there are separated rooms in which the family regiment in charge of personal administration or establishment service resides, creating a private household, you must register them in a new private dwelling questionnaire. An example of this situation is when an owner of a hotel or elderly household lives there alongside his/her family.
In your DEP, the system displays the options of private or collective dwelling.
