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Characteristics of the dwelling

5. Total useful floor space of dwelling ____

Sum of floor space of all the rooms -- rooms, kitchens with or without window, antechambers, bathrooms, toilets, larders etc. The answer should be given at full square meter precision.

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Characteristics of the Dwelling

15. Total useful floor space of dwelling (question 5) [p.18]
Useful dwelling's space is the sum of all rooms' space, of kitchen with or without window, hall (vestibule), bathroom, toilet, pantry, agricultural chamber, enclosed porch and passage and all other rooms which are located in the constructional building.

In agricultural type buildings, the area of vestibule is also counted as dwelling's useable space. The vestibule shouldn't be included in the total useful space of dwelling and it is not considered as a part of dwelling, if:

- The vestibule connects occupational part of dwelling with agricultural one.
- There is a hall used despite the vestibule.
- There are more flats in the housing, and the vestibule serves as a public hall accessible for all inhabitants.

Total space of rooms and other spaces, and therefore -- the total space of usable housing's space includes the space built-up by closets, furnaces plus the space of niches and crumbling.

In single-family dwellings, which are still in construction, but are also inhabited in a part, the total usable space of the housing should include only rooms which are fully finished and furnished.

The total useful space of the dwelling shouldn't include:

- Rooms and other spaces, which are registered as pension (12, point 9).
- Rooms used only for professional purposes, if such rooms have a separate entrance from the street, yard, or generally accessible hall.
- Porches and passages, which haven't got walls from floor to ceiling (glassed walls should be treated as walls.
- Rooms and other spaces which are significantly damaged which cannot be used for occupational purposes and are not occupied.

Area of all rooms and other facilities built-in the roof's construction should be specified as following:

- Area with roof on the height of 2m should be measured in total.
- Area with roof on the height of 1, 10 to 1, 99 m should be measured in half.
- Area with roof on the height less than 1, 10 m shouldn't be measured at all.

Data about the usable space of dwelling should be rewritten from the table on the supportive form. Before registering this information, the enumerator should evaluate, whether such a space is probable. If the enumerator will state that such measurements are invalid, and in the case, if an inhabitant did not prepare information about dwelling's measurements, the enumerator should ask about this document. If the inhabitant has such document, then data contained on it should be considered as reliable and information should be rewritten directly into the A form. In the case, when the document is lacking, the inhabitant should be asked to measure the dwelling by himself, providing that the enumerator should support him both with measurement and calculations.

Data about space should be written down in full cubic meters, and the number after the coma should be rounded off according to the following principle: 0, 1 to 0, 4 cubic meters should be removed and measurements from 0, 5 to 0, 9 cubic meters should be rounded off to full 1 cubic meter, so while having measurements of 45, 1 -- 45, 4 -- 45 should be written down, and in the case of 45, 5 -45, 9 -- 46.