Section B. Information about the Dwelling
1. Type of dwelling:
Individual Dwelling
[] 01 Independent house
[] 02 Apartment
[] 03 Room in house or boarding house
[] 04 Retail space not build for habitation
[] 05 Temporary shelter
[] 06 Improvised house
[] 07 Other
Collective Dwelling
[] 08 Hotel, pension, or guest house
[] 09 Hospital, sanitarium, or clinic
[] 10 Orphanage or home for the elderly
[] 11 Barracks, battalion, or police station
[] 12 Prison or reformatory
[] 13 Other
(Continue to Section F if any of these answers are selected)
Section B. Data about the Dwelling
Type of dwelling
Before completing the data of dwelling, it is important to know the definition of dwelling for the purpose of the census and to know how to distinguish the two types of dwelling: private and collective.
Dwelling
This is a place that is structurally separate and independent, built, reformed or habilitated for the purpose of temporary or permanent housing of persons. You can also consider as dwelling any other type of non-mobile or mobile shelter occupied by persons as a place of housing at the date of the census.
Question 1: Type of dwelling
This question is completed by simple observation and to determine the type of dwelling you should consider the three following characteristics:
-That the site is used or is available for use to house persons.
-That the site is separated, that from the point of view of the members that are housed in it, they can isolated themselves from other members, principally for sleeping and eating.
-That the site is independent, understanding independence from the point of view of access to enter the inhabited space, which can be directly from the street, from a patio, corridor, hallway, or from a stairway or elevator, without having to pass through any other habitation site occupied by another household in the site or dwelling.
Mark the corresponding small box, taking into account that the private dwellings can be:
[Each definition is accompanied by an illustration]
Independent house: This is a dwelling which is entered directly from the street, can be surrounded by gardens, land, walls or fences. It generally has its own services of water, energy, and sanitation.
[p. 30]Apartment: This dwelling forms part of a building that has one or more stories, separated from the rest of the dwellings by dividing walls, with an exit to the street through a shared passageway, corridor, stairway or elevator. An apartment has water service and sanitation services that are for its exclusive use.
Room in a rooming house or tenement: This is the space that forms part of a set of dwellings that generally have a direct entrance from a patio, hallway, or corridor. Generally, the rooms share the water services and sanitation services.
Site not built as a dwelling: These are sites that are located within permanent installations or buildings that were built for other purposes, such as: schools, workshops, factories, etc., but that are being used as dwellings on the day of the census. For this reason, you should ask about the existence of these and enumerate them.
Transitory shelter: These are sites built in transitory manner to shelter households that lost their dwellings for different reasons such as: natural disasters, confrontations, etc. These generally share the water services and sanitation services.
Improvised house: This is the dwelling built of discarded materials, such as pieces of wood, cardboard, cans, metallic sheeting, etc. This dwelling is generally found in the marginal areas of the large cities.
Other: This option should be marked only in those cases in which there is difficulty to register the dwelling in one of the previous categories.
The enumerator should take into account that in the same building it is possible to find: an independent house, one or more apartments, and one or more rooms.
Collective dwelling:
This the one that is occupied by persons who are normally not linked by ties of being relatives and who share the dwelling for reason of: work, medical attention, studies, military service, tourism, etc.
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The collective dwellings with few members should be enumerated by the regular enumerators of each sector. If the enumerator finds collective dwellings with numerous members, he/she should consult about the enumerators specially trained for these cases.
Mark the corresponding box of the group of Collective dwellings, taking into account that:
Collective dwelling can be:
- Hotel, hostel, guest house: These are permanent sites destined for providing shelter and service of rooms for payment.
- Hospital, sanatorium, clinic: This is an institution where ill persons are sheltered and attended.
- Orphanage or asylum: The orphanage is a dwelling designated for the permanent care of children, and the asylum is the dwelling persons of advanced age are sheltered and cared for.
- Barracks, battalion, police post: These are the installations where members of the army and police live permanently.
- Prison, reformatory: These are centers where persons are imprisoned.
-Other: This category is comprised of the collective dwellings that do not fit any of the definitions given above; for example: a student dormitory.
In the collective dwellings, you will only obtain the data that corresponds to section A 'geographic location', question 1. Type of dwelling of section B 'data about the dwelling', and the 'characteristics of the persons' (section F).
Be aware that in a building that functions as a collective dwelling there can be private dwellings with one or more households, which can form a private dwelling. If this occurs, use another form for each of the private dwellings and assign it a number that is different from that of the collective dwelling.
Example: A hotel administer lives there himself with his family, to register the data, you should proceed in the following manner:
- All of the persons enumerated as members of the collective dwelling should be assigned the number of the dwelling on the census form, for example 001, marking the box for 'hotel, hostel, or guest house';
- On the form with the data about the administrator and his family, you should assign number 002, marking the box for 'apartment'. You should fill all of the questions of sections: A 'geographic location, B 'data about the dwelling', C 'data about the household', D 'composition of the household', E 'international migration and mortality', and F 'characteristics of the persons'.