II. Characteristics of the place of habitation
1. Type of place
a. Private (individual)
[] 1 Regular house (formal)
[] 2 Apartment
[] 3 Room in a tenement
[] 4 Shack or other rustic housing
[] 5 Improvised house
[] 6 Other type (specify) ____
b. Collective
[] 7 Hotel, boarding house, guest house [go to chapter V]
[] 8 Hospital, health care center [go to chapter V]
[] 9 Boarding school [go to chapter V]
[] 10 Institution [go to chapter V]
[] 11 Camps [go to chapter V]
[] 12 Other type (specify) ____ [go to chapter V]
c. [] 13 Without place [go to chapter V]
3.3.2 Section II: Dwelling characteristics
This section contains questions and options about the characteristics of the premise. These questions are not applicable to the enumeration of the homeless population.
1. Type of dwelling
What is a dwelling?
A dwelling is a separate and independent lodging which was built, converted or arranged for human habitation. It may be inhabited at the time of the census even though it was not built as a dwelling. It may not be used in part or full for any other purpose at the time of the census.
A dwelling has two essential characteristics:
a) Separate: a lodging can be considered separate if it is surrounded by walls and covered by a roof in such a way that a person or group of persons has privacy and safety, and is separate from other persons in the community for purposes of sleeping, preparing and eating food, and protecting himself/herself from inclement weather (rain, sun, wind).
b) Independent: a lodging can be considered independent if it has direct access from the street, stairway, hallway or courtyard, i.e., when the occupants can go in and out of a dwelling without going through premises (dwellings) inhabited by other people.
There are two types of dwelling, private and collective.
[A drawing of a private dwelling and a collective dwellings are reproduced here.]
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This manual and this census refer only to the homeless population. There is no categorization for type of premise.