Literal question
Dwelling questionnaire
I. Type of dwelling
[] 1 Conventional dwelling
[] 2 Shack/ Rudimentary wooden house
[] 3 Mobile housing unit
[] 4 Improvised within a building
[] 5 Other inhabited place
[] 6 SA [acronym in Portuguese for homeless]
[] 7 CD (Reserved for Statistics Portugal -NSI)
[] 8 PE (Reserved for Statistics Portugal - NSI)
Interviewer instructions
7.2.2.1. Filling out the Single Dwelling questionnaire
I- Type of dwelling
[There is an image of the section in the questionnaire]
[p. 89]
Conventional Dwelling
A conventional dwelling is a place that has a room or many rooms in a permanent fixed building or structure that has an independent entrance with direct access to a front yard or pathway in the interior of the building (staircase, corridor, or passage among others).
Include: isolated rooms built with enough space or transformed to house conventional families are considered part of it.
Non-conventional dwelling
Shacks/rudimentary wooden houses- non-conventional dwelling built independently with old, used or rustic materials.
Mobile housing units- non-conventional dwelling not fixed in a location or that it is mobile (boat, trailer, among others). These include trailers, tents, trailer home, etc.
Improvised within a building- a non-conventional single-family dwelling situated within a permanent structure (mill, barn, garage, among others) that was not remodeled or altered to accommodate living;
Other inhabited places- these include places that have people living, without any direct human effort to make it inhabitable. These include caves and natural shelters.
SA [acronym in Portuguese for homeless] (Homeless)- in case that a person is found homeless, you must indicate the code SA and proceed as mentioned in chapter 2.
Consider a person homeless if he/she, during the census period, is found living in the street or other public space such as gardens, metro stations, parking ramps, bridges or overpasses, building arches, or the person that, even though she/he spent the night in a homeless shelter (overnight shelter) is forced to spend a number of hours a day in a public area. In the previously mentioned situation, such a person even though he/she might eat and sleep in a homeless shelter, he/she would have to leave the following morning.
Situations that would be excluded from the concept of homeless:
People who live in abandoned buildings
People who, though not having a dwelling that could be classified as regular residence, during the census period were found present in collective dwellings such as hospitals, shelters with residential validity, residential shelters, etc?
People who, although lacking a permanent residence, at the moment of the census period were found in dwellings of friends or family;
People who live in natural shelters, for example caves.
For operational purposes, people who do not possess a dwelling that can be considered permanent, but during the census period reside in hospitals, pension rooms paid by social security, reintegration apartments, shelters that function as residential units or in the house of a friend or family, cannot be considered under the concept of homeless. In such cases, these people would be considered residents of the places where they are found in the census period.
