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2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

Housing Tenure (4), Age Groups of Primary Household Maintainer (8), Household Type (9) and Structural Type of Dwelling (5) for Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 National Household Survey

About this variable: Structural type of dwelling (5)

Definition

Structural type of dwelling

Part A - Short 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.

Values

  1. Total - Structural type of dwelling
  2. Single-detached house
  3. Apartment, building that has five or more storeys
  4. Movable dwelling Footnote 4
  5. Other dwelling Footnote 5

Footnotes

Footnote 4

Includes mobile homes and other movable dwellings such as houseboats and railroad cars.

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Footnote 5

Includes semi-detached houses, row houses, apartments or flats in a duplex, apartments in buildings that has fewer than five storeys and other single-attached houses.

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