Section 11: Housing - Head of household
B. Characteristics of Occupied Dwelling Unit and Land Tenancy
41. Type of dwelling
A dwelling unit must have a separate entrance and not be accessed or entered through someone else's living arrangements.
How would you describe the type of dwelling unit that your household occupies?
[] 01 Separate house
[] 02 Flat/apartment/cond.
[] 03 Townhouse
[] 04 Double house/duplex
[] 05 Part of Com./Ind. building
[] 06 Barracks
[] 07 Out-room
[] 08 Other Pr./dwelling
[] 09 Group dwelling
[] 10 WAFDA
[] 77 Other
[] 99 Not stated
Section 11 - Housing
11.5. Type of dwelling unit
Dwelling units are classified into eleven (11) categories.
The information to be recorded in this question must relate to the building or part of the building used for living purposes. The types of dwellings specified in the 2010 Population and Housing Census are described as follows:
(i) Separate house - The dwelling unit comprises an entire separate building, though more than one household may occupy it.
(ii) Flat / apartment / condominium - Flats are self-contained private dwellings in a single or multi-storied building. Apartments are dwelling units within buildings where the household occupies part of the building but has separate and direct access to and from the street or from a public or communal staircase, passage, gallery.
A condominium is defined as a block of self contained dwelling units, which may be flats or apartments for which legal title is held individually. Each unit is attached to or dependent to a substantial degree on the other unit for support shelter or easement. Facilities such as security, grounds and maintenance cost are shared.
(iii) Town house - A block of self-contained units with separate legal title to ownership. These units are attached side by side having no other dwelling either above or below. Sometimes common facilities such as security and grounds are shared.
(iv) Double house / duplex - A dwelling joined to only one other dwelling, separated from it by a wall extending from ground to roof, i.e. one of two dwellings attached side by side, having no other dwellings either above or below and separated by open space from all other structures.
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(v) Part of commercial / industrial building - This type of dwelling would be recorded when the household occupies part of the building for living purposes while other parts of the building are used as business places, garages, etc.
(vi) Barracks - A room or division of a long building containing several independent or dependent private dwellings, with or without shared facilities.
(vii) Out-room - One or more rooms separated from the main building and occupied by a separate household, i.e. quarters for domestic employee
(viii) Improvised housing unit - This is an independent makeshift structure built of waste materials such and/or without a predetermined plan for habitation by a household, but is being used for habitation at the time of the census.
(ix) Other private dwelling - This category is used for households living in none of the dwelling types so far specified. Included in this category are units where members of households live in boats, tents, trailers etc.
(x) Group dwelling - These have already been defined and refer to certain types of institutions, i.e. retirement homes, hostels, youth camps etc.
(xi) Wafda - A block of self contained single storied units with separate legal title to ownership. These units are attached side by side having no dwelling either above or below. Examples of these can be found in La Horquetta and Maloney Gardens