Characteristics of Dwelling Unit
48. Number of bedrooms
48(a). How many bedrooms are there in this dwelling? (Count all bedrooms including spares not occupied. Bedrooms are rooms used mainly for sleeping and exclude makeshift and temporary sleeping quarters.)
[] 0 0
[] 1 1
[] 2 2
[] 3 3
[] 4 4
[] 5 5 and more
[] 9 Not stated
Characteristics of the dwelling unit
Question 48[a] - Number of bedrooms
Bedrooms are rooms used exclusively for sleeping. There must be some permanency about the walls enclosing the bedroom. A dwelling unit which uses a room for other activities by day and sleeping by night has "no bedrooms". Makeshift arrangements, blinds et cetera do not count as rooms.
Question 48[b] - Bedrooms available for use or occupied by household
This question seeks to obtain a more accurate measurement of persons per bedroom by relating the actual number of bedrooms occupied or available for use by the major household in cases where the dwelling unit is shared with one or more households. For example, there may be three [3] bedrooms in a dwelling unit to be shared by two households consisting of ten [10] persons altogether. There will be errors in the analysis if each household separately is considered as having three [3] bedrooms available. Hence, question 48[b] is introduced and must be asked where there is double, triple, etc. household occupancy as the case may be. Do not ask question 48[b] if the dwelling unit is occupied by only one [1] household i.e. box [2] in question 40.