Interviewer instructions
2.1 Dwelling
The principal purpose of the census is to count all the dwellings and the people who live in them, for this reason it is important that you visit all the dwellings in your area of work.
What is a dwelling? It is any place that is set off, normally, by walls and a roof made of any material, which is utilized to live, that is, eat and protect oneself from the environment, and where the people can enter or leave without passing through the interior of the rooms of another dwelling.
-Any area which is set off, and which, at the time of the census, is used to live, should be considered a dwelling, even if it was not constructed for habitation.
-In contrast, constructions that have been made to live in, but which, at the time of the census are used for other purposes (warehouse, local commerce, office, workshop or other), should not be considered dwellings.
There are two types of dwellings: private and collective. It is your job to enumerate the private ones; the collective dwellings will be enumerated by other personnel.
Private dwellings
One which serves as lodging for one or more people, who may or may not be relatives.
The types of private dwellings which you might find in your work area are explained next:
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Independent house
Does not share walls, a roof or a floor with another dwelling. Duplexes are considered independent houses.
[Drawings of three different types of dwellings.]
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Apartment in a building
Forms part of a group of dwellings that are joined together and share a wall, the roof, or a floor with another dwelling.
[Drawing of this type of dwelling]
Dwelling or room in a tenement house
Shares the wall, roof, or floor with another dwelling, and in addition, the occupants can share water or sanitation services.
[Drawing of this type of dwelling]
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Dwelling or room on the roof
This is only considered a dwelling when the room is inhabited and its occupants do not share food costs with the occupants of the apartment to which the room belongs. If it is not inhabited, it is not considered a dwelling.
[Drawing of this type of dwelling]
Premises not constructed for inhabitation
Places that were built for a purpose other than habitation, but that at the time of the visit are inhabited. For example: factories, lighthouses, workshops, warehouses, offices, etc.
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Mobile dwelling
Dwellings that can be transported from one place to another. For example: circus tents, railroad cars, trailers, boats, or any other. If, during the census, these are not inhabited, they are not considered dwellings.
[Drawing of a train car]
Refuge
A place that is improvised or adapted for living. For example: caves, sewers, drainage pipes, under a bridge, etc. These are only dwellings when they are inhabited.
[Drawing of a cave]
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Independent houses, apartments in buildings, and community dwellings or rooms can be inhabited or uninhabited at the time of the visit.
An uninhabited dwelling is one in which no one is living during the census period, and which is totally constructed and available for inhabitation.
Refuges, constructions that are incomplete or in ruins, tents, railroad cars, boats, trailers, or any vehicle which is not being utilized for living at the time of the visit is not considered an uninhabited dwelling.
A temporary-use dwelling is one which is only utilized seasonally or on the weekends, for rest, diversion or sickness, etc.
Collective dwelling
One which is meant to lodge people for reasons of health, education, rehabilitation, etc. and should comply with rules of communal living and behavior.
The types of collective dwellings are the following:
[Drawing of a hotel]
Hotel, motel, inn.
Boarding house, guest house, house of assisted living.
Hospital, insane asylum, clinic, health house.
Orphanage, hospice, asylum, retirement house, nursery.
Boarding school, student residence.
Convent, monastery, seminary, religious congregation.
Public shelter or dormitory.
Work camp, work barracks, petroleum platform.
Jail, prison, reformatory, juvenile prison, rehabilitation center for law breakers, correctional facility, penitentiary, penal colony.
Military headquarters, encampment, garrison, base, police, military or naval detachment.
Other (camp for refugees or victims, brothel).
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You should not enumerate these types of dwellings; other personnel are in charge of them.
