Definition: Non-conventional dwellings

Category: Demography

Some housing units do not come fully within the definition of a conventional dwelling because they are mobile or semi-permanent or improvised or are not actually designed for human habitation, but which are used at the time of the census as the principal usual residence of one or more persons who are members of one or more private households.  All of these are grouped under the term "non-conventional' dwellings, the main distinction between their treatment for census purposes and the treatment  of conventional dwellings being, first, that they are counted only if they are occupied in the sense defined above, and, second, that certain census topics do not apply to them (they are accordingly excluded from parts of the table programme). Non-conventional dwellings may include the following: mobile housing units, semi-permanent housing units and other housing units designed (or not designed) for habitation. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-AP-01-017&mode=view