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B. Housing unit characteristics

1. Indicate type of housing unit:

A. Privately owned housing unit

[] 1 House
[] 2 Apartment
[] 3 Traditional indigenous unit (ruka, pae pae or other)
[] 4 Room in an old house or tenement
[] 5 Hut, shack, hovel or emergency housing
[] 6 Mobile housing (tent, trailer or other)
[] 7 Other kind of privately owned housing unit
B. Collective unit
[] 8 Example: Guest house, rooming house, residential home for the elderly.
If you find a collective unit on your route that is not listed in your documents, inform your supervisor and continue your route.
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Key concepts for census-taking

What is a housing unit?
A housing unit is anything that has been built, adapted, or made available for housing persons.

What is a privately-owned housing unit?
These are the housing units where most of us reside. They are within a clearly delimited physical space and are inhabited by persons who constitute one or more households. Furthermore, they are characterized by having direct access (i.e., to enter them, it is not necessary to pass through the inside of another housing unit).

What a collective unit?
These are housing unit used as a place of accommodation for a set of persons who are there for reasons of health, work, religion, study, discipline or another situation. Typical cases of collective units could be hospitals, convents, boarding schools, barracks, correctional facilities, hotels, hostels, bed-and-breakfasts, etc.
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Questionnaire section B: "housing unit characteristics"
[Questions 1 and 2, housing unit type]
In this part of the questionnaire, information about the housing unit that you are recording is entered. The first two questions are by observation; only in cases where there are no persons present in the housing unit should you check with neighbors as to whether it is occupied or vacant.
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Remember that you can go back to review the definition of privately-owned housing unit and collective unit on pages 21 and 22.

[Question 2]
A. Occupied

1. Occupants present: There are persons in the housing unit when you visit it.
2. Occupants absent: The persons who inhabit the housing unit are not at home at the time, e.g., because they went shopping, went to church or to visit other people.
B. Vacant
3. For sale, rent, abandoned or other: The housing unit has been unoccupied for a long time.
4. Seasonal housing unit (vacation property or other): The housing unit is occupied at some times during the year (weekends or vacations), but at the time of the census, it is unoccupied.

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Important: When no persons are found to be present, check with neighbors to see if the housing unit is vacant.
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