GQ Flashcards (D-1028)_ English

FORM D-1028(PES)
(3-11-2020)

OMB No. 0607-1010 Approval Expires 11/30/2022
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

GROUP LIVING QUARTERS DEFINITIONS
2020 Census

A) Boarding school (except for schools for people with disabilities)
Includes public, private, and Bureau of Indian affairs residential schools that focus on academic
programs for juvenile students in a live-in environment.
B) Correctional facility for adults or juveniles
Prisons, jails, detention centers, and halfway houses operated for correctional purposes, residential
training schools and farms, reception and diagnostic centers, group homes operated by or for
correctional authorities, and boot camps for juvenile delinquents.
C) Fraternity or sorority houses for students at a college, university, or seminary
Group housing for students who reside in a fraternity or sorority house at a college, university, or
seminary.
D) Group home (non-correctional) or residential treatment center (non-correctional)
Group living arrangements in residential settings that are able to accommodate three or more clients
of a service provider that provides room and board and services, including behavioral, psychological,
or social programs. Or, residential facilities that provide treatment on-site in a highly structured live-in
environment for the treatment of drug/alcohol abuse, mental illness, and emotional/behavioral
disorders.
E) Health care facility (e.g., skilled-nursing facility, nursing facility, hospital, hospice)
Skilled nursing facility or nursing home providing longterm 24-hour care with licensed nurses for
non-acute medical care. Also include hospital and freestanding hospice units.
F) Hotel, motel, hostel, single-room occupancy units, inn, resort, lodge, or bed &
breakfast
All types of lodging facilities that may include permanent housing for some clients and/or housing for
people experiencing homelessness.
G) Independent living or assisted living facility
Facilities that provide housing for older adults and coordinates personal support services, 24 hour
supervision and assistance to meet needs in a way that promotes maximum dignity and
independence for each resident. These facilities are designed for people who need regular help with
the activities of daily living but do not necessarily require skilled medical care. These facilities may
contain a skilled nursing unit or nursing home.
H) Military Quarters (e.g., barrack/dormitory, disciplinary barrack/jail, military treatment
facility)
These facilities include military disciplinary or nondisciplinary barracks or dormitories and military
treatment facilities.

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I)

Recreational Vehicle (RV) park, campground, marina, or racetrack
Include both commercial and private.

J)

Religious group living quarters intended to house members living in a group situation
(e.g., convent, monastery, or abbey)
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. (Seminary students living in group
quarters are classified as college student housing, not religious group quarters.)

K) Residence hall or dormitory for students that is owned, leased, or managed either by a
college, university, or seminary, or by private entity or organization
Group housing for students at residential colleges, universities and seminaries.
L) Residential schools for people with disabilities (e.g., schools for the physically or
developmentally disabled)
Group housing for students at schools for students with disabilities
M) Soup kitchen, a facility that separates a regularly scheduled mobile food van, or
shelter for people experiencing homelessness
Soup kitchens and mobile food vans provide meals primarily to people experiencing homelessness.
Shelters are places where people experiencing homelessness stay at least overnight.
N) Workers’ group living quarters or group housing at Job Corps centers (e.g., migratory
farm worker quarters, ranch housing, vocational training facilities, or housing for staff)
Migratory farm worker camps, ranch workers housing, vocational training facilities (such as Job
Corps), and all group housing for staff in separate buildings or wings.
O) None of the Above

FORM D-1028(PES)(3-11-2020)