Definition: Institution

Category: Time-use statistics

Legal body for the purpose of long-term inhabitation and provision of services to a group of persons, usually with common facilities shared by the occupants (baths, lounges, eating facilities etc.). The majority of institutional households fall under the following categories:

- Hospitals, convalescent homes, establishments for the disabled, psychiatric institutions, aged care and nursing homes
- Assisted living facilities and welfare institutions including those for the homeless, asylum seekers or refugees
- Military bases or barracks
- Student residences (dormitories)
- Correctional and penal institutions, retention facilities
- Religious institutions
- Worker dormitories https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-GQ-19-003&mode=view