Literal question
II. Dwelling information
2. Dwelling type
A. Private dwellings
[] 1 Independent [detached] house or rancho [poor shack or hut]
[] 2 Apartment or floor of a building
[] 3 Rented room(s)
[] 4 Improvised dwelling
[] 5 Others (specify) ____
B. Collective dwellings (group quarters)
[] 1 Hotel, inn, hostel, etc.
[] 2 Barracks, military or police post
[] 3 Boarding school
[] 4 Hospital, sanatorium, old-age home, etc.
[] 5 Others (specify) ____
Interviewer instructions
II. Information about the dwelling
These serve to determine the principal characteristics and the conditions, in which they are found, in terms of the construction, comfort, disposition of basic services, etc.
For the purposes of the census, the dwelling is any shelter, separated and independent, built or used for housing persons.
In the "collective dwellings", this part will be completed up to the part of type of dwelling.
2. Type of dwelling:
a) Private dwellings:
You will mark:
* Independent house or ranch-house: when the dwelling is built in a form that is separated one from another and has direct exit to the street or to a shared space
(interior patio, corridor, stairway, vestibule, etc.). For example: the family houses along a street, individual chalets, etc.
* Apartment or flat: when the dwelling occupies only part of a building. If can be an apartment in a large complex (monoblock), all of a floor in a building with various floors, etc.
* Rental room(s): when the dwelling independently occupies a room of various similar rooms that exist in a single building. They generally share the hygienic services.
In the case of the rooming houses, each "household" should give the information corresponding to Information about the dwelling only for the part of the building that it occupies.
* Improvised dwelling: when it is build with discarded materials: cardboard, straw [woven straw], cans, tarps, cane, packaging, etc.
* Others: (specify): when the dwelling is boat, shack, old chassis, tent, guard shack, stable, etc.
2. Type of dwelling
a) Private dwellings
[] 1 Independent house or ranch
[] 2 Department or floor
[] 3 Rental room(s)
[] 4 Improvised dwelling
[] 5 Others (specify) ____
b) Collective Dwellings:
As you will observe, on the form there are several possible causes for collective dwelling listed. Simply mark the corresponding option. When you encounter another class of collective dwelling, mark in line "others" and specify the special nature of it. Be aware that within a "collective dwelling", you can encounter one or more "private dwellings".
2. Type of dwelling
b. Collective dwellings
[] 1 Hotel, pension, inn, etc.
[] 2 Barracks, military, or police station
[] 3 Educational boarding house
[] 4 Hospital, healthcare center, Asylum, etc.
[] 5 Other (specify) ____