A12 Type of Residence
[] 01 Occupied housing unit (Go to A13 on next page)
[] 02 Vacant housing unit (Go to housing condition)
[] 03 Homeless household (Go to A13 on next page)
[] 04 School, College, University, Seminary, Convent
[] 05 Children's home/SOS, orphanage, destitutes' home
[] 06 Hospital, Maternity Home, Divine healers or herbalist's establishment, Leper settlement, infirmary
[] 07 Prisons, borstal institutions, "Industrial" school, remand home
[] 08 Service barracks, including army camps, and police depots
[] 09 Mining camps, road camps, farm camps, refugee cams etc.
[] 10 Hotel, rest-house, transit quarters, hostel, bar night club, restaurant
[] 11 Transit post e.g. at railway station, in ships, at ferries, inside harbour, at airport, at international border stations
[] 12 Lorry park, market (inside or outside)
[] 13 Other location of outdoor sleepers e.g. on floor near shops, on the beach, on verandah of houses, on pavement at office premises etc., locations of person not in transit e.g. mentally ill.
7.4 Who is a member of an institution?
For the purpose of the Census, any inmate of an institution who slept in that particular institution on Census Night must be considered as a member of that institution and enumerated as such. The following are examples of such institutions:
a. Educational institutions, e.g., boarding schools, universities, training colleges, blind schools, seminaries, convents, children's homes, orphanages, nurseries, hostels (e.g. Y.W.C.A.), etc.
b. Hospitals including mental hospitals, maternity homes, divine healers' and herbalists' establishments, rehabilitation centres and similar institutions for the physically and mentally handicapped.
c. Prisons including borstal institutions, remand homes and industrial schools.
d. Service barracks including army camps, military academies, police training schools and colleges.
Note that staff members living in private households in the institutions specified in (a), (b), (c) and (d) above must be counted as living in private houses and must not be considered as inmates of institutions.
7.5 Who constitute the floating population?
There are certain categories of persons such as outdoor sleepers and transients who may be counted more than once or may not be enumerated at all if care is not taken. These persons constitute the floating population.
The following are examples of persons in this category:
a. Persons who on Census Night were travelling in lorries, trains or on foot and therefore did not sleep in any house or compound on that night.
b. Persons who spent Census Night in hotels, rest houses, transit quarters, road camps and labour transit camps.
[p. 20]c. Persons at airport, on ships, at ferries, at international border stations.
d. Soldiers on field exercise.
e. Fishermen and other persons who were at sea in Ghana's territorial waters on Census Night.
f. All persons who slept in lorry parks, markets, in front of stores and offices, public bathrooms, petrol filling stations, railway stations, veranda, pavements, churches and all such places which are not houses or compounds.
g. Beggars and vagrants (mentally sick or otherwise).
Persons at funerals, dances, parties, etc., on Census Night must not be treated as part of the floating population without further probing. If the respondent spent Census Night at such a social gathering he must be enumerated in the house to which he finally returned after the function. For instance, if Kwamena Appiah after the social function went to sleep with a friend after Census Night the former must be enumerated in the friend's household.
(A12) Type of residence: Mark X in the relevant box provided for the type of residence. Option 01, 02, 03, are for households while options 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are for institutions and the floating population.
Note that option 03 (homeless households) should be marked for only households of two or more persons sleeping outdoors.
Mark 13 for an individual outdoor sleeper.