Characteristics of the dwelling unit occupied by household
Interviewer: A dwelling unit must have a separate entrance and not be accessed or entered through someone else's living arrangements.
42(b). How many bedrooms are occupied /available for use by your household?
[Question 42. b. applies only heads of households living in dwelling units occupied by more than one household.]
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Characteristics of the dwelling unit
Question 42[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 etc. do not count as rooms.
Question 42 [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 42[b] is introduced and must be asked where there is double, triple, etc. household occupancy as the case may be. Do not ask question 42[b] if the dwelling unit is occupied by only one [1] household.