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Selected Collective Dwelling and Population Characteristics (25) and Type of Collective Dwelling (17) for the Population in Collective Dwellings of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2006 Census - 100% Data
About this variable: Type of collective dwelling (17)
Definition
Collective dwelling
Part A - Plain language definition
Dwelling used for commercial, institutional or communal purposes, such as a hotel, a hospital or a work camp.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to a dwelling of a commercial, institutional or communal nature. It may be identified by a sign on the premises or by a census representative speaking with the person in charge, a resident, a neighbour, etc. Included are lodging or rooming houses, hotels, motels, tourist homes, nursing homes, hospitals, staff residences, communal quarters (military bases), work camps, jails, missions, group homes, and so on. Collective dwellings may be occupied by usual residents or solely by foreign and/or temporary residents.
Values
- Total - Type of collective dwelling
- Health care and related facilities
- General hospitals
- Other hospitals and related institutions
- Facilities for persons with a disability
- Special care facilities Footnote 6
- Homes and treatment centres for children with psychiatric disorders or developmental disabilities
- Correctional and penal institutions Footnote 8
- Shelters Footnote 9
- Group homes for children and youth
- Service collective dwellings
- Lodging and rooming houses
- Hotels, motels and tourist homes
- Other service collective dwellings Footnote 14
- Religious establishments
- Hutterite colonies
- Other Footnote 17
Footnotes
- Footnote 6
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Refers to nursing homes, residences for senior citizens, and chronic and long-term care and related facilities.
- Footnote 8
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Refers to correctional and penal institutions, jails, establishment for delinquents and young offenders, and police lock-up facilities.
- Footnote 9
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Refers to shelters for abused women and children, shelters for persons lacking a fixed address, and other shelters and lodging and rooming with assistance services.
- Footnote 14
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Refers to school residences and residences for training centres, YM/YWCAs, hostels and other establishments with temporary accommodation services, and campgrounds and parks.
- Footnote 17
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Refers to work camps, staff residences and oil rigs at sea, military bases, merchant and government vessels, and other collectives dwellings such as outfitter camps.