Literal question
Chapter III: Characteristics of the Building Where the Dwelling is Located
(Completed only for the first dwelling recorded on the form for the building.)
20. Materials used for outer walls construction
[] 1 Reinforced concrete, pre-cast concrete panels, or skeleton framed concrete
[] 2 Brick masonry, stone masonry or panel substitutes made from concrete reinforced with steel beams
[] 3 Brick masonry, stone masonry or panel substitutes made from wood
[] 4 Wood (beams, logs, etc.)
[] 5 Saplings plastered with wet clay, adobe, other material (wood pressed panels, rolled mud bricks, etc.)
Interviewer instructions
The materials used for the outer walls construction (item 20)
42. The type of construction materials used for the walls construction will be recorded on the basis of the statements of the owners, of the administrators or of the building's tenants (or on the basis of the personal findings of the enumerators).
The way of recording:
-- the mark x will be written on the code box 1(reinforced concrete, precast concrete panels or steel skeleton framed concrete) -- for the constructions executed by using sliding forms, as well as for the buildings having prefabricated panels with reinforced concrete. Also, the buildings constructed with steel skeleton frame (concrete pillars and beams), having the exterior walls executed from bricks masonry, stones masonry, Light-weight Building Slabs, or substitutes, also the code 1 will be recorded;
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-- the mark x will be recorded by writing the codes 2 or 3 (bricks or stones masonry or substitutes), according to the type of the materials used to execute the dividing panels between the floors (or between the ground level and the garret -- in the case of one floor buildings): reinforced concrete -- metallic beams (code 2), or wood (code 3).
By exterior walls executed using the bricks substitutes, it is understood the walls made by using: perforated bricks (with hollows), ceramics and concrete blocks, Light-weight Building Slabs, etc., and therefore these buildings will be, also, coded by 2 or 3, according to the kind of material used to make the panel.
The curved red bricks and metal reinforcement panels have to be assimilated to the reinforced concrete panels and will be codified by 2.
-- the mark x will be written on the code box 4 (wood, logs, poles) -- when the exterior walls of the buildings are executed from these materials, and for those using saplings plastered with wet clay, adobe, other materials (Wood Pressed Panels, rolled mud bricks, wattles, twigs, reed, etc.) the mark x will be recorded for the code box 5 (saplings plastered with wet clay, adobe or other materials).
For the dwellings having the outer walls built by using different materials (stones, wood, bricks, adobe, etc.) only the material having the biggest proportion will be recorded. If the materials have equal proportion, the less resistant will be recorded.
