House - for a private household located in a building with direct access to a thoroughfare, regardless of the material used in its construction, its condition, or the number of floors. Buildings with two or three floors which contain only one household will be considered houses; or
Apartment - for a private household with common areas for more than one household (entrance hall, stairways, corridors, entrance gate and other areas) in buildings of one or more floors, with various units, including rooms in a tenement (cabeça-de-porco), inner-city slum dwellings, etc. Dwellings located in buildings of two or three floors which have at least one household per floor will also be considered apartments. Buildings in which one of the floors is occupied by a non-residential unit are included in these cases.