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1.4 Buildings to be counted or "Residential Buildings according to the definition of the Census"

A residential building, according to the census, is a building which is made up of at least one dwelling whatever the original purpose or design of this building.

Examples:

- a private house
- a HLM (low- income housing) with 50 dwellings
- a farmhouse where a farming family lives
- a village school where the instructor lives
- a theater out of which the concierge makes a dwelling

a) If it's about a building made up of two dwellings or more, you will create a collective residential building file (DIC, printout number 4), which will serve as a folder for all the housing documents and the corresponding individual forms.
[Picture of DIC and picture of the corresponding forms]
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Very common individual situations

1. Some buildings are made up of several staircases. This is the case, for example, for significant HLM units. You will count it as a residential building, and you will establish a DIC for each of the staircases. You will apply this rule even if the building has only one single entrance door to the outside. This situation is very common in old structures. This rule results in the division of the building vertically into several "residential dwellings according to the definition of the census".

[Picture of building divided into three parts illustrates this point in the center of the page; the following words are written on the three sections:
- left- hand staircase, 1st residential building - 1 DIC
- center staircase, 2nd residential building - 1 DIC
- right- hand staircase, 3rd residential building - 1 DIC]

2. Even limited to one staircase, some buildings are made up of more than 60 dwellings, the maximum number of dwellings which can be registered on pages 2 and 3 or the DIC.
In the event, for example, that one staircase covers 10 floors with 8 dwellings each (the basement not counted as a dwelling), you will define it, according to the census definition, as:

- a first residential building in reference to the entire number of dwellings on floors 1- 7, thus making a total of 56 dwellings for which you will create 1 DIC and 56 FL;
- a second residential building in reference to the entire number of dwellings on floors 8- 10, thus making a total of 24 dwellings for which you will create 1 DIC and 24 FL.

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b) If the structure is made up of a dwelling and that one alone, it is counted as a residential building by the census definition, but you will not create a DIC since the FL will suffice to describe the structure.
Note: at the back of the census manual, in the packet of questionnaires relating to a district could be accompanied with collective building files (containing the corresponding FL with their BI) and some FL (with their BI) without DICs representing the residential buildings of a single dwelling.

Very common special cases

Some private houses are found juxtaposed. If this is the case, for example, of some miner's terraced houses in some mining regions, in pavilions constructed in the new towns of the great suburbs, or in some villas on the sea front. You will consider that there are just as many distinct residential buildings according to the census definition as there houses, since all these houses are independent. No DIC will be created, except if one of these houses has been split into two dwellings.
[See picture on bottom of page 14 of several houses in a row, all juxtaposed]

1.5 / Structures not to be counted
a) The structures which you have checked have no dwelling and are not residential buildings according to the census definition.
Do not count them. No printed form is filled out for them.
Examples:

- this factory contains no dwelling. [See picture, upper right- hand corner]
Important!: You must check to make sure. Many industrial, commercial, or administrative establishments do contain dwellings for those in charge or the guard, and you have to count those.
- this house has fallen into ruin.
Important!: Some residential buildings in the path of destruction are "taken over", and their occupants must be counted.
- this stadium is not to be counted.
Important!: The person in charge of its maintenance is sometimes housed on the site.

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- this residential building should not be counted because it is not completed.
Rule: A structure should not be considered complete, that is, to be counted, except if each of the following two cases is true:

- the electrical connections are made.
- the buildings can be inhabited immediately.

Special case:
Some people who occupy their dwelling before the completion of the construction work, for example, by "camping" in one room. You will include them in the census as well as the building.
However, you will not count the other dwellings of the residential building, which are unoccupied.

b) The cultural/ethnic communities
In 1982, we had taken a census of :

- 260,000 military men and women in barracks or military camps
- 520,000 boarding students of an educational institution
- 60,000 people in prison or integrated (into the society)
- 200,000 people working from their home
- 130,000 students in University dormitories or at home
- 330,000 elderly people in nursing homes or retirement homes
- 190,000 people hospitalized for a long duration
- 90,000 members of a religious community

There are other categories of communities. For example, housing centers or host families and the homes of handicapped people.
[Picture of building under construction in upper right- hand corner
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As a rule, these cultural/ethnic communities are counted in February by special agents. These agents counted not only the communities and their members, but also the individual dwellings situated in their enclosures and their occupants.
Example:
The director of the Chenaie retirement home makes use of a dwelling on the highest floor.
[see picture in upper right- hand corner of p. 17]
All these cultural/ethnic communities having undertaken the census in February, as well as the individual dwellings of which they are made up, are mentioned in tables 1, 2, and 3 and on pages 3 and 4 of the district form which is given to you.
Conclusion: If one community is mentioned on the district form, there is no reason to enter inside the community if it forms a very distinct, separate unit in the heart of the district.
Special cases:

1) A community is mentioned, but does not constitute a distinct unit. For example, a student home occupies an entire floor of a residential building where, in addition, there are dwellings which have nothing in common with that home. Therefore you will not count this home. On the other hand, you will include all the other dwellings, and you will establish a DIC for them.
2) You will discover during the census collection a house or a structure not mentioned in the district's form, but serving as the shelter of a such a cultural/ethnic community. You will immediately point out this case to the delegate.
3) You will discover during the collection, within a collective residential building, a community occupying two or more dwellings not mentioned on the district form. You will point this out at once to the delegate.
4) You will discover during the collection, within a collective residential building a community occupying one single dwelling and not mentioned on the district form. You will count this dwelling just like all the other dwellings of the residential building, with the help of a FL and a BI for each occupant, regardless of the number of community members.
Example: Three representatives of a congregation occupy a dwelling which serves as their residence, and where they conduct support work for poor and destitute. They will be counted with the help of a FL and three BI.
5) The dwellings- homes for elderly people are not cultural/ethnic communities, but dwellings. Hence they are not counted in February, but in March, by you. Each of them will be represented as an item on a FL, and one BI is filled in for each occupant. This type of dwelling is furthermore mentioned explicitly on question 1 from page 4 of the FL. One DIC is filled for the residential building according to the usual rules.

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6) Hotels are not cultural/ethnic communities. You should therefore visit all the hotels situated on your sector and, eventually, count them according to the steps outlined in annex 3.
7) You should count the police barracks with the help of a FL per dwelling and per bedroom and also with a BI per occupant (policemen and members of their families). However, you will not count the drafted military carrying out their national service in the barracks and already counted in February.