[] 1 Is owned by a private person
[] 2 Is owed by co-operative dwelling
[] 3 Is tenant by co-operative
[] 4 Is owned by community (gmina)
[] 5 Is owned by state property
[] 6 Is owned by establishment company
[] 7 Is owned by social building company
[] 8 Other type of ownership (specify) ____

Answer 1. Is owned by a private person- select this answer in case when the right to the property of the dwelling is held by a private person (one or more, e.g. spouses). It has to be noted that this person:

May be the owner of the whole real estate, where the dwelling is situated; a single-family home is an example of such a property. Or:

May have a share in common estate in a form of a law related with a separate property of the living space, e.g. situated in a building under the so-called condominium.

The property right to the whole estate or only the living space with proprietary part of the estate (the so-called share in the common estate), should be revealed in the real estate register or, in case of its absence, in another document corroborating the ownership.
Select answer 1 also in case when the owner of the dwelling does not reside in it at the time of the census, because they have rented it, made it accessible gratuitously or in return for work to another person or household, or the dwelling is not occupied.

Answers 2 and 3: Is owned/tenant by cooperative dwelling -- concerns proprietary co-operative dwellings (symbol 2) and lodgings (symbol 3) situated in buildings owned or co-owned by the co-operative dwelling with exception to dwellings under the law of separate ownership of real estate in favor of one or several private persons, established by the virtue of the Act on Housing Co-operatives of 15th December 2000.

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A tied accommodation (dwelling) owned by a housing co-operative occupied on the basis of the tenancy, e.g. by a janitor, maintenance worker, should be categorized as 3. Tenant by co-operative dwelling.

Answer 4. Is owned by community (gmina) -- concerns dwellings:

Which are owned by community (gmina) or powiat (local governmental community)

Handed over to the community (gmina), but remaining at the disposal of public utility units, such as: healthcare units, welfare/social assistance units, educational units, cultural institutions.

Answer 5 is owned by state property- regards dwellings:

Taken over (from the liquidated State Agricultural Farms [PGR]) and still owned by the State Agricultural Property Agency.

Taken over and still owned by Military Housing Agency [Wojskowa Agencja Mieszkaniowa].

Managed by units under the following ministries: Ministry Of National Defense, Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Ministry of Justice and the president of Office for State Protection [Urz?d Ochrony Pa?stwa]

Managed by the following organs: state authority, state administration, and state control.

Handed over to diplomatic posts and consulates for use, lease or tenancy, by a unit representing the Treasury.

Answer 6. Is owned by establishment company- concerns dwellings which are owned:

By state enterprises as well as state organizational units e.g. scientific and research institutes, universities and art institutions,

Municipal enterprises e.g. public transport, waterworks and sewerage, thermal energetic, with the exception of the housing management enterprises;

Private enterprises -- functioning as a partnership/company or co-operatives, with the exception of co-operative dwellings;

Answer 7. Is owned by social building company -- concerns dwellings situated in a building owned by legal entity, which has the following words in its name towarzystwo budownictwa spo?ecznego [Housing Association] or the abbreviation TBS.

Answer 8. Other entity-concerns dwellings owned by:

Private organizations building or buying dwellings for profit: for sale or rent,

Trade unions, associations, foundations, political parties, trade and economic self-governments,

Catholic church and other churches and confessional associations, including catholic universities and church institutes.

A room [izba] is a space with direct daylight and not smaller than 4 square meters, separated from other spaces in the dwelling with solid walls reaching from the floor to the ceiling.

Spaces meeting the above-mentioned criteria may be called rooms. Other spaces in a dwelling, such as: ante-room, hall, bathroom, kitchen without a window, toilet, pantry, closet, dressing-room, alcove, veranda and porch are supplementary spaces and they are not treated as rooms.