Interviewer instructions
Question 1. Type of Private Dwelling
1. Type of Dwelling / Note through observation.
_ House
_ Ranch house
_ Small house
_ Apartment
_ Room in a boarding house
_ Room in a family house or pension
_ Mobile dwelling
_ Persons living in the street (continue with 4). In these cases, you will number the Dwelling Number box with correlative numbers, even when there are no inhabitants of a dwelling.
Mark with an ?X? one and only one answer option. This case corresponds only to Questions 1 and 2 of Dwelling.
Type of private dwelling:
- House: Dwelling with a direct exit to the exterior (its inhabitants do not pass through common-use hallways or corredors) built originally to be inhabited by persons. Generally, they have walls made of brick, stone, concrete block, or reinforced concrete.
- Ranch house: Dwelling with a direct exit to the exterior (its inhabitants do not pass through common-use hallways or corredors) built originally to be inhabited by persons. Generally, they have walls made of adobe, dirt floors, and a roof made of leaves or straw.
- Shack: Dwelling with a direct exit to the exterior (its inhabitants do not pass through common-use hallways or
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corredors) built originally to be inhabited by persons. Generally, they are built using poor quality or discarded materials.
- Apartment: Dwelling that forms part of a building or structure with a common entrance that has at least two dwellings (or one dwelling and one or more commercial spaces) to which the access is through corredors, entryways or elevators that are for shared use.
- Room in a boarding house: An area located in a boarding house or house of rooms, it is a building that to contain various rooms that have an exit to one or more spaces for common use with the intention of housing people permanently as renters. Generally, the building has bathrooms and/or kitchens that are shared; this does not exclude that some of the rooms have their own bathrooms and/or kitchens.
Each room in the boarding house in which there were persons who spent the night of reference for the Census, in considered a dwelling.
- Room in a family hotel or pension: room located in a family hotel or pensions, this is a building that contains various rooms that have exits to one or more spaces for common use with the intention of housing, in permanent manner, persons in the condition of guests or pensioners. It is characterized by a) payment for housing made daily, weekly, bi-weekly and/or monthly and, b) the authorization under the legislation established for this type of business is exhibited in visible places of the said establishment or in the registry books of the establishment.
Each room or the family hotel or pension in which there were persons who spent the night of reference of the Census is considered to be a dwelling.
- Commerial space not built for habitation: a dwelling that has not been built or adapted to be inhabited by persons but in which there were persons who spent the night there on the night of reference of the Census.
- Mobile dwelling: This is a structure that is used as a dwelling, built to be transported (camping tent, tarp, or tent) or that is made of a mobile unit (ship, boat, railway car, mobile home, truck, wagon, etc.). It will be considered a private dwelling only if there were persons who spent the night there on the night of reference of the Census.
