Commission Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009Dangos y teitl llawn

Topic: Housing arrangements

The topic ‘Housing arrangements’ covers the whole population and refers to the type of housing in which a person usually resides at the time of the census. This covers all persons who are usual residents in different types of living quarters, or who do not have a usual residence and stay temporarily in some type of living quarters, or who are roofless, sleeping rough or in emergency shelters, when the census is taken.

Occupants are persons with their usual residence in the places listed in the respective category.

‘Conventional dwellings’ are structurally separate and independent premises at fixed locations which are designed for permanent human habitation and are, at the reference date,

(a)

used as a residence, or

(b)

vacant, or

(c)

reserved for seasonal or secondary use.

‘Separate’ means surrounded by walls and covered by a roof or ceiling so that one or more persons can isolate themselves. ‘Independent’ means having direct access from a street or a staircase, passage, gallery or grounds.

‘Other housing units’ are huts, cabins, shacks, shanties, caravans, houseboats, barns, mills, caves or any other shelter used for human habitation at the time of the census, irrespective if it was designed for human habitation.

‘Collective living quarters’ are premises which are designed for habitation by large groups of individuals or several households and which are used as the usual residence of at least one person at the time of the census.

‘Occupied conventional dwellings’, other housing units and collective living quarters together represent ‘living quarters’. Any ‘living quarter’ must be the usual residence of at least one person.

The sum of occupied conventional dwellings and other housing units represents ‘housing units’.

The homeless (persons who are not usual residents in any living quarter category) can be persons living in the streets without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living quarters (primary homelessness) or persons moving frequently between temporary accommodation (secondary homelessness).

Housing arrangements			HAR.L.	HAR.H.
0.	Total		0.	0.
1.	Occupants living in a conventional dwelling or in a collective living quarter		1.	1.
	1.1.	Occupants living in a conventional dwelling	1.1.	1.1.
	1.2.	Occupants living in a collective living quarter	1.2.	1.2.
2.	Occupants living in an other housing unit and the Homeless		2.	2.
	2.1.	Occupants living in an other housing unit		2.1.
	2.2.	Homeless		2.2.
3.	Not stated		3.	3.

The breakdowns for ‘Housing arrangements’ are designed to break down any total or subtotal referring to persons.

In the breakdown HAR.L., the categories ‘Total’ (HAR.L.0.) as well as ‘Occupants living in an other housing unit and the Homeless’ (HAR.L.2.) are optional.