Data tables, 2016 Census

Type of Collective Dwelling (16), Age (20) and Sex (3) for the Population in Collective Dwellings of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2016 Census - 100% Data

About this variable: Type of collective dwelling (16)

Definition

Collective dwelling

Refers to a dwelling of a commercial, institutional or communal nature. It may be identified by a sign on the premises or by an enumerator speaking with the person in charge, a resident, a neighbour, etc. Included are lodging or rooming houses, hotels, motels, tourist establishments, nursing homes, hospitals, staff residences, military bases, work camps, jails, group homes, and so on.

Values

  1. Total - Type of collective dwelling
  2. Health care and related facilities
  3. Hospitals
  4. Nursing homes
  5. Residences for senior citizens
  6. Facilities that are a mix of both a nursing home and a residence for senior citizens Footnote 6
  7. Residential care facilities such as group homes for persons with disabilities and addictions
  8. Correctional and custodial facilities
  9. Shelters
  10. Service collective dwellings
  11. Lodging and rooming houses
  12. Hotels, motels and other establishments with temporary accommodation services
  13. Other service collective dwellings Footnote 13
  14. Religious establishments
  15. Hutterite colonies
  16. Other collective dwellings Footnote 16

Footnotes

Footnote 6

Facilities for elderly residents that provide health care services to some residents (i.e., to residents that are not independent in most activities of daily living), but only support services / assisted services to other residents (i.e., to residents that are independent in most activities of daily living).

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Footnote 13

Refers to school residences, training centre residences, campgrounds and parks.

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Footnote 16

Refers to work camps, military bases, commercial and government vessels, and other collective dwellings such as outfitter camps.

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