I. Characteristics of the housing unit

7. Cooking area: Is the space for cooking or food preparation:

15. Extended questionnaire
This section of the questionnaire contains the questions you must apply in the households you have registered as: Single house on the land, house sharing land with other(s); duplex house; apartment in a building; housing unit in neighborhood or tenement and housing unit in the rooftop room of a building. That is, with classes 1 to 6 of private housing unit class.

III. Cooking conditions
7. Place where they cook
This question identifies the space used to prepare or heat food.

Read the question mentioning each option until the respondent answers affirmatively and select the code that corresponds.

The inside-the-housing unit option is chosen when the stove or cooking stove used to prepare or heat food is located in a space or room within the housing unit, whether it is an exclusive room, a hallway or corridor on the interior, a round room or a room with different uses, etc.

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The room separate from the housing unit option is when the residents cook or prepare their food in a room delimited by a roof and fixed walls that is separate from the main construction of the housing unit - from the sleeping rooms or living room - but is located on the same premises or lot as the housing unit.

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A corridor or corridor outside the housing unit refers to a space that is part of the structure of the housing unit, but that is outside; it is not completely enclosed by walls, so it is not a room and, therefore, allows air circulation in said space.

Generally, the roof of the housing unit covers the corridor or hallway and is supported by columns or pillars.

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The option in a tejabán or techito applies when cooking is done in a space outside the house that is roofed. The roof can be of any size and material such as: metal or cardboard sheet, palm, canvas, or cloth, among others.

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Outdoors. Situation in which the residents of the housing unit cook outdoors, without any kind of roof.

This option includes people who cook under the branches or foliage of a tree.

Select option 6 when the residents of the housing units don't have a specific place to cook

The question place where they cook is presented in the census manager as follows:

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