Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="EC01A056 EC01A059 EC01A060"><span class="em">Question 9.- Not counting the kitchen or the bathroom, how many rooms or bedrooms does the dwelling have?</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 9 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Room.-</span> Is an area or space separated by permanent walls made of any material and that is intended to be used as a bedroom, living room, dining room, study, recreation room, etc.<br /><br />Ask the question word for word and emphasize that the kitchen, bathroom(s), corridors, hallways and those rooms meant only for purposes other than living should be excluded. Example: garages, offices, cellars, workshops, stores, etc. Record in Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3... etc.) in the appropriate space the total number of rooms that the dwelling you are enumerating has.<br /><br />[There is a cross-section of a house with two bedrooms, a dining room, kitchen and bathroom, and the numbers 03 filled in.]<br /><br /><span class="em">When one of the rooms in the dwelling is a single space (such as is the case in modern apartments) that is used as a living room, dining room and kitchen, you </span>should record it as a single room.<br /></svar>
