Interviewer instructions
4.3.- Question No. 1. Type:
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4.3.1.- Private Dwelling: is used as a living quarters by a Census Family. It is classified in the following types:
4.3.1.1.- Ordinary: Private Dwelling of Ordinary Type is a room or group of rooms and their dependencies, located in a house, building or permanent place, permanent is considered as with a durability of 10 years or more and has been built with long lasting materials like cement, cement blocks, bricks, wood, etc.
In this type of place are found: houses, apartments, independent flats, etc
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4.3.1.2.- Shack: is any room or group of rooms built with rustic local materials without any special treatment. Generally they have a roof and/or walls of palm leaves, straw, bamboo, etc. In this type of dwelling are found shacks, cabins, huts, etc.
4.3.1.3.- Marginal: In this type of dwelling are included
a) Improvised Dwelling: is a room or group of rooms built with discarded materials, without any preconceived plan and that is found to be occupied on the day of the enumeration.
This type of dwelling always is found on the banks of rivers, under bridges, in the outskirts of cities, and the majority is found in groups. It is a so-called hovel.
b) Dwelling in a building or permanent place not meant to be a human dwelling: dwelling units that have not been built, adapted or transformed for human habitation, but that are found to be occupied as a dwelling on the day of enumeration. Examples: Dwelling Units in wine cellars, granaries, stables, factories, garages, stores, offices, guard booths, etc.
c) Other places not meant to be a human dwelling: is a place not meant to be a human dwelling, but used as such the day of enumeration. Examples: Caves or any other natural refuge.
4.3.1.4.- Mobile: A mobile dwelling is understood to be a place built to be moved and that is found to be inhabited the day of enumeration.
Examples: Camping tents, ships, boats, railroad cars, trailers, etc.
4.3.2.- Collective Dwelling: is a house, building or place where a Non- Family Group resides, therefore in it persons are lodged for reasons of health, discipline, security, work, study, social adaptation, religious seclusion, etc.
Examples: Hospitals, jails, reformatories, convents, interned institutions, campgrounds, etc.
Mark the circle corresponding to collective dwelling (5) when in the identification you wrote down the name corresponding to an institution. When it concerns this type of dwelling do not ask the rest of the questions referring to the Dwelling form and continue with the Population form.
