Literal question
I. Characteristics of the dwelling for the only household or for the first household
[Questions 1-9]
[Questions 2-16 were addressed only in case of an occupied dwelling, with occupants present, per Question 1.]
2. Type of dwelling
Collective - continue with population [skip questions 3-16]
[] Home for the elderly
[] Home for children
[] Boarding school
[] Labor camp
[] Hospital
[] Prison
[] Barracks
[] Religious household
[] Hotel
Individual
[] House
[] Rural dwelling or cabin
[] Apartment
[] Rented room/s
[] Pension or hotel
[] Space not built for occupation
[] Mobile dwelling
Interviewer instructions
Dwelling:
Premises that have been built or adapted for lodging persons. Also places not meant originally for lodging persons but used for this purpose on the day of the census should be considered a dwelling.
Two types of dwellings exist: private dwellings and collective dwellings.
The types of private dwellings are: house, shack, hut, apartment, tenement house, boarding house or hotel, place not built for habitation, mobile dwelling.
The types of collective dwellings are: nursing household, youth household, boarding school, worker camp, hospital, prison, barracks, religious household, hotel.
Private Census Household:
A group of persons, related or not, who live under the same roof in accordance with a set of family rules, that is to say, who share their food expenses. In some areas the act of sharing food expenses is called having a common pot olla común.
Persons who live alone are counted as a household.
To summarize: in a private household, the persons who make it up:
live under the same roof.
share food expenses.
