2006 Census Topic-based tabulations
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Household Type (11), Structural Type of Dwelling (10) and Housing Tenure (4) for Private Households of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data
About this variable: Structural type of dwelling (10)
Definition
Structural type of dwelling
Part A - Plain language definition
Characteristics that define a dwelling's structure, for example, the characteristics of a single-detached house, a semi-detached house, a row house, or an apartment or flat in a duplex.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the structural characteristics and/or dwelling configuration, that is, whether the dwelling is a single-detached house, an apartment in a high-rise building, a row house, a mobile home, etc.
In 2006, improvements to the enumeration process and changes in structural type classification affect the historical comparability of the 'structural type of dwelling' variable. In 2006, 'apartment or flat in a duplex' replaces 'apartment or flat in a detached duplex' and includes duplexes attached to other dwellings or buildings. This is a change from the 2001 Census where duplexes attached to other dwellings or buildings were classified as an 'apartment in a building that has fewer than five storeys'.
Values
- Total - Structural type of dwelling
- Single-detached house
- Apartment, building that has five or more storeys
- Movable dwelling Footnote 4
- Other dwelling
- Semi-detached house
- Row house
- Apartment, duplex
- Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys
- Other single-attached house
Footnotes
- Footnote 4
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Includes mobile homes and other movable dwellings such as houseboats and railroad cars.