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National Population and Housing Census 2009

Vanuatu, 2009
Reference ID
VUT_2009_PHC_v01_M
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Vanuatu National Statstics Office
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H1. Type of Living Quarter (H1)

Data file: HOUSING

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 13
End: 13
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
What is the type of living quarter?
Categories
Value Category
1 One family house detached from any other house
2 One family house atached to one or more houses
3 Building with 2 or more apartments
4 Building with 2 or more households which share a kitchen/toilet
5 Lodging house
6 Swelling attached to a shop or other non-residential building
7 Others
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Only 1 box should be marked
This question refers to the type of living quarters this household are living in. The answers are provided as shown: Also in this case, you can use your observation to confirm the answers that are provided.

The following clarifications apply to the above categories 1 to 7:
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Category 1: "A one family house detached from any other house", is a dwelling for a single household. It is not joined to any other dwelling by one or more walls and is not in a building used also as a shop or a factory.

Category 2: "A one family house attached to one or more houses", is a dwelling, which shares a common wall with one or two other dwellings.
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Category 3: "A building consisting of two or more apartments", may be a block of flats, an apartment building or a set of town houses.

- Category 4: "A building with two or more households which shares a kitchen or toilet" is self-explanatory.
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Category 5: "A dwelling attached to a shop or other non-residential building".
Households sometimes live in dwellings above their shops or dwellings attached to factories or workshops.
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Category 6: "A lodging house" is like a hostel where people either share rooms or have separate rooms but share either cooking or washing facilities.
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