2008 Ccm Hufu

Attachment C
Page 1 of 2
FORM

DX-XXXX (04/20/2007)

OMB No. XXXX-XXXX:
Approval Expires XX/XX/20XX

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

Initial Housing Unit Followup Group Quarters Question Flashcard
A. Correctional facility
Group homes and halfway houses operated by or for correctional authorities. Also include prisons, jails,
detention centers, residential training schools and farms, reception and diagnostic centers, and boot camps
for juvenile delinquents.
B. Dormitory, residence hall, fraternity or sorority house for students at a college, university, or
seminary
Group housing for college, university, or seminary students such as residence halls and dormitories. Also
include fraternity and sorority houses if they are recognized by the college or university.
C. Group home or residential treatment center
Group living arrangements in the community providing room, board, and supportive services, such as social,
psychological or behavioral programs. Include maternity homes for unwed mothers, orphanages, and homes
for abused or neglected children. Also include residential facilities that provide treatment of drug/alcohol
abuse, mental illness and emotional/behavioral disorders.
D. Health care facility or nursing home
Skilled nursing facility, unit or nursing home providing long-term 24-hour care for long-term non-acute
medical care. Also include hospice units (both free-standing and units in hospitals) and mental (psychiatric)
hospitals and units.
E. Independent living or assisted living facility WITH 24-hour skilled nursing unit or facility
Facilities that provide BOTH a 24-hour skilled nursing unit AND housing for the older or disabled population
where personal support services and assistance are provided. These facilities contain a skilled nursing unit
or facility, and there are independent or assisted living units which are a separate living quarters and have
direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall.
F. Independent living or assisted living facility WITHOUT 24-hour skilled nursing unit or facility
Facilities that provide housing for the older or disabled population and coordinate personal support services
and assistance. The housing units are a separate living quarters that have direct access from the outside of
the building or through a common hall, and these facilities do not contain a skilled nursing unit or facility.
G. Recreational Vehicle (RV) park, campground, marina, or racetrack
Facilities providing space for recreational vehicles (RVs) that are “self-propelling” (that is, those driven like a
bus or van) and truck campers. Also include tents and campers, boats docked in a marina or private slip,
and any living quarters that are a part of racetrack grounds. Some people living or staying at these types of
places do not have a usual residence elsewhere; others live or stay at these types of places for part of the
year (such as “snowbirds”).
H. Religious group quarters
Facilities owned or operated by religious organizations that are intended to house their members in a group
living situation such as convents, monasteries, or abbeys.
I. Residential school for people with disabilities
Schools that provide the teaching of skills for daily living, education programs, and care for students with
disabilities in a live-in environment.
J. Shelter
Emergency or transitional shelters where people experiencing homelessness stay, such as missions, hotels
and motels used to shelter people experiencing homelessness, and shelters for runaway children. Also
include temporary group living arrangements established as a result of natural disasters.
K. Workers’ group living quarters or Job Corps centers
Facilities such as dormitories and bunkhouses for workers. Examples include migratory farmworker camps,
ranch workers’ housing, vocational training facilities (such as Job Corps) and all group housing for staff in
separate buildings or wings.
L. None of the above

Attachment C
Page 2 of 2
FORM

DX-XXXX (04/20/2007)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

OMB No. XXXX-XXXX:
Approval Expires XX/XX/20XX

Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

DEFINITIONS FOR INITIAL HOUSING UNIT FOLLOWUP
Housing Unit
A Housing Unit is:
a separate living quarters - that is, the occupants live separately from all other people in the building and have
direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall
occupied or vacant at the time of your visit, but intended for occupancy as a separate living quarters
Examples of Housing Units are:
a house, an apartment, a mobile home or trailer, or a group of rooms or a single room (vacant or occupied)
a seasonal or weekend cottage, condominium, or vacation home (vacant or occupied)
a Housing Unit within, above, or behind a commercial building, church, or school, etc. (vacant or occupied)
a boarded up Housing Unit as long as it is not open to the elements (vacant or occupied)
a Housing Unit under construction when doors, windows, and floors are all in place
a hotel or motel room if it is occupied at the time of your visit by person(s) with no other ‘usual residence’ (Usual
residence is defined as the place where a person lives AND sleeps most of the time. A vacant hotel or motel room is
never a Housing Unit.)
an RV, camper, houseboat, lean-to, tent, train car, bus or automobile only if it is occupied at the time of your visit
by person(s) with no other usual residence. (Campers or trailers only used for temporary overflow sleeping are NOT
Housing Units.)
independent or assisted living unit if the unit is NOT provided with 24-hour skilled nursing care
Situations NOT considered Housing Units are:
Under construction (doors, windows and floors
Empty trailer lot/site or trailer/house has been
NOT in place)
moved
Future Construction
Group quarters
Unfit for habitation (condemned or open to the
Businesses
Unit used for storage
elements) and occupied at the time of your visit
Demolished or burned down
Boarded up
Basic Street Address (BSA)
A BSA is the house number (including any letters and fractions) and street name portion of an address. For example:
11 Main Street, 11 ½ Main Street and 11A Main Street are all BSAs. In multiunits where the apartment or unit
designation comes after the street name – such as 11 Main Street Apt. A, 11 Main Street Apt. B, 11 Main Street Apt.
C – all individual units share the same BSA (11 Main Street).
Group Quarters (GQs)
Group quarters are places owned or managed by organizations that provide services, such as custodial or medical
care, for the residents. This is not a typical household-type living arrangement because residency is commonly
restricted to those receiving services and people living in group quarters are usually not related to each other.
Examples include:
College or university student housing, such as residence halls, dormitories, and fraternity or sorority houses
Correctional group homes and halfway houses; jails, prisons, detention centers and boot camps
Group homes that provide room and board and services, including behavioral, psychological or social programs
Health care facilities such as in-patient hospice facilities and mental (psychiatric) hospitals or units
Military quarters, including barracks and medical treatment facilities
Nursing homes
Orphanages and homes for neglected children or unwed mothers
Religious group quarters, such as convents, monasteries and abbeys
Residential schools for people with disabilities
Residential treatment centers that provide services on-site in a highly structured live-in environment for the
treatment of drug/alcohol abuse, mental illness and emotional behavioral disorders
Shelters for people experiencing homelessness, including missions, hotels and motels, and temporary group
living arrangements established as a result of natural disasters
Skilled nursing facilities or units associated with independent or assisted living facilities
Worker’s group living quarters (e.g.: dormitories and bunkhouses) such as migratory farmworker camps,
construction worker camps, Job Corps centers, and vocational training facilities