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I. Characteristics of the dwelling for the only household or for the first household
[Questions 1-9]

[Questions 2-16 were addressed only in case of an occupied dwelling, with occupants present, per Question 1.]

2. Type of dwelling

Collective - continue with population [skip questions 3-16]

[] Home for the elderly
[] Home for children
[] Boarding school
[] Labor camp
[] Hospital
[] Prison
[] Barracks
[] Religious household
[] Hotel

Individual

[] House
[] Rural dwelling or cabin
[] Apartment
[] Rented room/s
[] Pension or hotel
[] Space not built for occupation
[] Mobile dwelling

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1. Characteristics of the dwelling for the only household or for the first household

How do we fill out question 1?
[The instructions refer to a graphic of the census form]
Simply registering the situation that we find, in accordance with the following chart:

The objective of question 2 is to classify the dwellings according to the building characteristics.

Because we are enumerators of private dwellings, we will only fill out the type of dwelling in the column to the right "Private".
[The instructions refer to a graphic of the census form.]

Here are the definitions of the different types of private dwellings:

House: A dwelling with direct exit to the outside (its inhabitants do not pass through halls or corridors of common use).
[The instructions refer to a graphic of a house.]

Shack or hut: A dwelling with exit to the outside. A shack (typical in rural areas) generally has adobe walls, earthen floors, and roof of metal sheets or straw. A hut (typical in urban areas) usually is built with materials of low quality or discarded.
[The instructions refer to a graphic of a house.]

Apartment: is a dwelling with its own bath and kitchen, which one gets to through halls, elevators, stairs or interior doorways of common use.

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Tenement house: is a dwelling with independent exit to the outside, built or remodeled deliberately for containing many rooms that have exits to one or more spaces of common use. A tenement house has bath(s) and or kitchen(s) that are used in a shared form. Some forms are known as tenements. Each tenement house is a single dwelling, in whose interior we should recognize the private households that inhabit it.
[The instructions refer to a graphic of a house.]

Boarding house or hotel: is a dwelling where private households are lodged by pensioners, who follow a special set of rules characterized by monthly, every two week or weekly pay of the cost of lodging in furnished bedrooms. Generally they are classified under the valid legislation for this type of establishment, which is exhibited in visible places. Each boarding house or hotel is the only dwelling, in whose interior we should recognize the private households that inhabit it.
[The instructions refer to a graphic of a house.]

Premises not built for habitation: A place not meant originally for human habitation but on the day of the Census is occupied by persons. Examples of this type of dwelling are: garage, warehouse, natural lodging (bridge, expressway, cave, etc.), an abandoned building, hospitals or public buildings that have stopped fulfilling the functions for which they were originally constructed and where, on the day of the Census, persons were lodged.
[The instructions refer to a graphic of a house.]

Mobile dwelling: A dwelling that can be transported to distant places (boat, ship, railroad car, trailer, truck, tent, sled, etc.).
[The instructions refer to a graphic of a house.]

These last two types of dwelling only will be enumerated if they are occupied at the moment of the census.

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Let us see in a graph the difference between a house and an apartment.

We can observe that Dwelling A is a house, since it has a direct exit to outside. On the other hand dwellings B, C and D are three dwellings for apartments, since one arrives at them through a hall of common use.