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Type of household

[] 1 Ordinary
[] 2 Collective
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2-3.1 Building: A building is a single construction covered with a roof (of any type) and generally limited by outside walls (of any type). A building can be:

An isolated house.
A house in a strip (often rectangular and compartmentalized).
A building (with several stories).

Several buildings can be situated, or not, in a closed [gated] space.
A concession is constituted of buildings grouped together, giving access or not, to a central courtyard. A concession can be gated or not.
Note that a building could be used to house one or several households, or none.
2-3.2 Dwelling Unit: A dwelling unit is an area (part of a building) or a collection of areas used for housing purposes by a household at the time of the census.
Note that dwelling units in the same building as other establishments such as a hospital, a hotel, etc., must be considered separately and counted as dwelling units. For example, a house, separated or not and independent or not, situated within the enclosure of a hospital
Or a school to be used by the director and his family must be considered a dwelling unit. Similarly, independent apartments in the same building as a hospital or a school must be considered dwelling units.
2-3.3 The household: The concept of the "household" is founded on the arrangements taken by persons, individually or collectively, to satisfy their vital needs.
There are two categories of households: the ordinary household and the collective household.
i) Ordinary Household: This is a grouping of persons, related or not, who recognize the authority of the same individual called "head of household," and whose resources and spending are communal. More than often, these persons live under the same roof, in the same courtyard, or the same concession.
Examples of ordinary households:

A man and his wife or wives, with or without children;
A man and his wife or wives, with their unmarried children, and his parents;
A man and his wife or wives, living with their married children, and associating together to satisfy certain essential needs (the group accepts the authority of one person);
A single man or a single woman with or without children and providing alone to his/her essential needs, alimentary and other;
A widowed or divorced man or woman with or without children;
A person renting a room and who does not take his/her meals with the household shall be considered to form an independent ordinary household. This is the case of single persons.
A group of single individuals sharing the same accommodation constitute an ordinary household if these individuals recognize the authority of the same person as head of household. Otherwise, they constitute separate households.

ii) Collective household: A collective household is defined as a group of persons, generally unrelated, who live together in an establishment for discipline, travel, health, education, or professional purposes.
Establishments in which collective households are found are: barracks, boarding schools, prisons, monasteries, convents and religious communities, orphanages, mental health institutions, hotels, temporary work site barracks.
If an ordinary household lives in one of the above-mentioned establishments (household of a prison director, hospital director), it shall be counted as an ordinary household. Such persons occupy accommodations relating to their function.
Family nucleus: is a group constituted by a couple with or without children, or an adult with at least one of his/her children. It is constituted by persons with marital and/or biological (fatherly or motherly) relations.