6. Specific dwelling type
Circle only one code.
[] 1 Independent house
[] 2 Apartment in an apartment building
[] 3 Dwelling in tenement building
[] 4 Dwelling in a room on the roof
[] 5 Premise not intended for habitation (go to section II)
[] 6 Mobile dwelling (go to section II)
[] 7 Shelter (go to section II)
Dwelling
This is the space generally delineated by walls and roofs of any material, with an independent entrance, that was constructed for the habitation of people, or that at the moment of data collection is used to live -- that is, to sleep, prepare food, eat, and protect oneself from the environment.
The independent entrance permits the occupants to enter from and go out to the street, the field, or rather the space common to other dwellings, like a hallway, patio, or stairs, without passing through the rooms of another dwelling.
The private inhabited dwelling
This is the dwelling that at the moment of data collection has habitual residents, whether or not it has been constructed or adapted for such.
This includes whatever corner, refuge, mobile installation, improvised or local that at the moment of data collection is used for the habitation of people.
The private households with inhabitants are classified as:
1. Independent house
2. Apartment in an apartment building
3. Dwelling in tenement building
4. Dwelling in a room in the attic
5. Premise not intended for habitation
6. Mobile dwelling
7. Shelter
Uninhabited dwelling
This is a private dwelling that at the moment of data collection does not have habitual residents, it is not utilized as a premise with economic activity, it is not used in a temporary way, and it is completely constructed and ready to be inhabited.
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Dwelling of temporary use
This is a private dwelling that at the moment of data collection is intended for vacationing, resting, or staying a few days, weeks, or months of the year, it neither has habitual residents nor is used as a premise for economic activity.
Collective dwelling
This is a premise intended to provide housing for large groups of people who submit themselves to living and behavioral norms based on motives of health, education, discipline, religion, work, and social assistance, among others, and that at the moment of data collection has habitual residents.
The majority of these premises have a sign or social reason that identifies them.
The collective dwellings are classified as:
1. Hotel, motel, inn
2. Boarding house, guest house, house of assistance
3. Hospital, clinic, healing house, medical treatment center
4. House for minors, orphanage, house for infants
5. House for elders, nursing home
6. Domestic abuse shelter
7. Homeless shelter
8. Boarding school, student residence
9. Convent, monastery, religious community housing, seminary
10. Jail, prison, penitentiary, penal colony
11. Rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquents, correctional facilities
12. Work camp, work barracks, medical residence
13. Military, naval, or police base, camp, or outpost
14. Camp for the displaced
15. Migrant shelter
16. Other classes
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Other types of properties:
Private dwelling with business
This is an inhabited private dwelling and business with economic activity that at the moment of data collection is found in the same property and share the same entrance or access door.
Business with activity
This is a space generally delineated by walls and roofs of any material, with independent entrance, that at the moment of data collection is used solely for economic activities, like producing a good, commercializing a product, or borrowing a service.
This includes private dwellings that at the moment of data collection are exclusively for economic activities.
Empty business
This is a space generally delineated by walls and roofs of any material, with an independent entrance, that was constructed with the intent of carrying out some economic activity and that at the moment of data collection is not being used for neither economic activity nor housing.
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Vacant lot
This is a space without buildings that is found in the interior of an urban block; it can be delineated by fences or walls.
Building in ruins
This is a construction whose high level of deterioration does not permit inhabitation nor the possibility of another activity, and that at the moment of data collection does not have permanent residents nor is used for economic activities.
Building under construction
This is a construction project in process that at the moment of data collection does not have permanent residents nor is utilized for economic activities.
As an interviewer, you are responsible for enumerating all the permanent residents of the dwellings located in the work area that you were assigned. Because of this, it's necessary that you know the concepts described below.
Permanent resident of a private dwelling
This is a person who normally lives in the dwelling, because he/she generally sleeps, prepares food, eats, and protects himself/herself from the environment there.
Permanent resident of a collective dwelling
This is any person who normally lives in a collective dwelling and is subject to the living and behavioral norms for reasons of health, education, discipline, re-adaptation, religion, work, and social assistance, among others, where he/she generally sleeps, consumes food, and protects himself/herself from the environment.
The permanent residents of a collective dwelling are the people who:
- Don't have another place of permanent residency.
- Have been there for six months or more.
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- Arrived for permanent stay, regardless of the time passed since the arrival.
Criteria for identifying the class of the private dwelling
If it deals with a private dwelling, circle the class of the corresponding dwelling in accordance with the observation and considering:
- If it deals with a fixed construction, mobile or improvised installation
- If it forms fart of a collection of dwellings in a building or terrain
- If it shares walls, roofs, or floors
- If it is a business with habitual residents
Apply the following specific criteria:
Independent house
This is a fixed construction of any material that generally does not share walls, roofs, or floors with other dwellings and has access from a public space: street, field, or path.
- There can be variety in the same space or premise.
- This includes private dwellings with businesses, as long as the space used to carry out the economic activity isn't used for sleeping.
Apartment in an apartment building
This is part of a group of apartments in a building constructed with resistant materials of various floors or levels, in which it shares some wall, roof, or floor with another dwelling of the same building. It has access from a common space: hallway, stairway, or elevator.
- Each apartment has independent water and lavatory installations.
Dwelling in a tenement building
This is a fixed construction that is part of a collection of dwellings grouped on the same space that share some wall, roof, or floor with another dwelling. It has access from a common space: patio or hallway.
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- Generally the water and lavatory installations are shared.
- The collection of dwellings is recognized as neighbors or collection of rooms
Dwelling in a room in the attic
This is a fixed construction that that is located on the terrace of an apartment building and that at the moment of the data collection is inhabited by people independent from those that reside in the apartment to which it belongs. It has access from a common space: stairway and hallway.
Premise not intended for habitation
This is a fixed construction that was built for economic activity and that at the moment of the data collection is inhabited, such as a store, workshop, storage, factory, office, barn, stable, among others.
Mobile dwelling
This is an installation or vehicle that can be moved or transported from one place to another and that at the moment of the data collection is inhabited, such as trailer, caravan, mobile home, automobile, boat, yacht, circus tent, campaign house, and boxcar.
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Shelter
This is a place or improvised installation such as a private dwelling that at the moment of the data collection is used to live, such as a cave, under a tree, a sewer, a drainage tube, a tunnel, under a bridge, in a door space, a shelter made with palm branches, among others.
- This includes the building in construction or in ruins that is inhabited at the moment of the data collection.