Family dwellings (Population and housing census and Population and housing statistics)
A family dwelling is considered to be any room, or collection of rooms and dependent rooms which occupy a building or a structurally separate part of a building, and which, due to the way in which it has been constructed, reconstructed, transformed, or adapted, is destined to be inhabited by one or more people and, on the reference date, is not exclusively used for other purposes.
The building may be partially destined to other ends (medical surgery, hairdresser¿s, tailor¿s, etc.); however, those buildings constructed initially as housing, but which at the time of the Census were used exclusively for other means are not counted (housing which has been transformed totally into offices, workshops, storehouses, etc.).
Family housing is included in the Housing Census regardless of whether it is occupied or not at the time of the Census.
Family housing is classified as main, secondary, unoccupied and other housing.
Main: when it is used totally or most of the year as the usual residence by one or more persons.
Secondary: when it is used only part of the year, periodically or sporadically and does not constitute the usual residence of one or more persons. It may therefore be a country, seaside or city home which is used on holidays, in summer, at weekends, for temporary work or on other occasions.
Unoccupied: when, while not being in a ruinous state, nor in any of the above mentioned situations considered, it is usually unoccupied.
Other family dwellings: when they cannot be classified in any of the three above categories. In this case they would be those dwellings that while they are neither the habitual dwelling of anyone (main), nor are they secondary dwellings, are intended to be rented out for short periods of time to different people and are effectively occupied for most of the time.
By collective establishment we understand that destined to be inhabited by a group people not living in a family, subject to an authority or common regime, or united by joint personal objectives or interests and that constitutes the main habitual residence of at least one person at the time when the Census renewal is carried out.