Literal question
2. Dwelling type
a) Private dwellings
[] 1 House
[] 2 Apartment
[] 3 Tenement [inquilinato: crowded urban dwelling, usually rooms rented out in a converted older house]
[] 4 Precarious dwelling
[] 5 Shack [Rancho]
[] 6 House, apartment, or room in a school, factory, office, etc.
[] 7 Mobile home, tent, boat, truck, boxcar/container, etc.
[] 8 Dwelling in a place not intended for habitation
[] 9 Others
b) Collective dwellings
[] 1 Hotel, inn, guesthouse, etc.
[] 2 Barracks, military or police post
[] 3 Hospital, sanatorium, health center
[] 4 Prison, reformatory, etc.
[] 5 Boarding school
[] 6 Convent, religious institution
[] 7 Encampment
[] 8 Other
Interviewer instructions
B. Dwelling
House: is an independent construction that generally constitutes a single family dwelling.
Apartment: is a room or set of rooms inside a building forming a single private dwelling, occupying only part of the building. The "floor" is an apartment that occupies an entire floor of the building.
House, apartment, or room in a school, factory, office, etc. is the room or set of rooms that being a private dwelling, are inside a school, workshop, factory, etc. (For example: the house of a school gatekeeper, the dwelling of the factory guard, etc.).
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Rental house: is a dwelling there six or more households are housed, with communal sanitation services.
Hut or cabin [rancho]: a dwelling with adobe walls, straw, bark, or leaf roof, dirt floor (specific to rural zones).
Precarious dwelling: construction made of discarded materials (boards from crates, pieces of cardboard, zinc sheeting, etc. which were previously used for another purpose).
Dwellings in a place not intended for habitation: these are private dwellings that on the "Census Day" are functioning in sites not destined for use as dwellings (dwellings located in sites that have a permanent destination as garages, barns, warehouses, etc.)
