Section II. Dwelling information
1. Dwelling type
A. Private dwelling
[] 11 House
[] 12 Farm (rancho)
[] 13 Apartment or suite/floor in a building
[] 14 Rented room
[] 15 Improvised dwelling
[] 16 Other ____
B. Collective dwelling (group quarters)
[] 21 Hotel or boardinghouse
[] 22 Boarding school
[] 23 Military or police post
[] 24 Hospital
[] 25 Asylum (or old-age home?)
[] 26 Prison or reformatory
[] 27 Religious community
[] 28 Other ____
Section II. Information about the dwelling
The information for this section will be completed for the single household. In the case that there is more than one census household within a dwelling, you will complete this section only for the first household.
This section is comprised of thirteen questions.
Remember: You should mark only one answer for each answer.
Question 1: Type of dwelling: We distinguish two types of dwellings:
1. Type of dwelling
A. Private dwelling
[] House
[] Rural ranch house
[] Apartment or flat
[] Rental room
[] Improvised dwelling
[] Other _____
B. Collective dwelling
[] Hotel or pension
[] Educational boarding school
[] Military or police barracks
[] Hospital
[] Asylum
[] Jail or reformatory
[] Religious community
[] Other _____
A. Private dwelling: is also classified by:
- House: This is the one that is built with prepared materials. It has direct exit to the street, road, path, etc. and constitutes a single dwelling.
- Rural ranch house: Dwelling with an exit to the exterior. The ranch house, in general, has adobe walls, dirt floor, straw, palm, or bark roof.
- Apartment or flat: This is the dwelling that forms part of a building of two or more floors and has access to the street through a hallway, corridor, stairway and/or elevator.
- Rental room: When the dwelling occupies, in independent manner, a room of various similar rooms that exist in a building or along a patio. Generally, they have common use of sanitary services.
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- Improvised dwelling: When the dwelling is built with discarded materials (cardboard, straw [woven straw], cans, tarps, plastic, cane, packaging, etc.)
- Other: Specify
In this category we include the spaces that are not destined for human habitation, but that are used as spaces for human habitation on the census day.
Example: Factories, stores, businesses, offices, garages, boats, sheds, old chassis, tent, guard house, stable, refugee camp, etc.
The refugee camps will use a form for each household with correlative numbers.
B. Collective dwelling: These are also classified like this:
-Hotel or pension
-Educational boarding school
-Military or police barracks
-Hospital
-Asylum
-Jail or reformatory
-Religious community
-Other
Also considered as a collective dwelling are the groups of six or more renters who live in private dwellings.