Definition: Institutional household

Category: Population censuses - UNECE

An institutional household comprises persons whose need for shelter and subsistence are being provided by an institution. An institution is understood to be a legal body for the purpose of long-term inhabitation and provision of services to a group of persons. Institutions usually have common facilities shared by the occupants (baths, lounges, eating facilities, dormitories and so forth). The great majority of institutional households fall under the following categories:

(1.0) Residences for students;
(2.0) Hospitals, convalescent homes, establishments for the disabled, psychiatric
institutions, old people’s homes and nursing homes;
(3.0) Assisted living facilities and welfare institutions including those for the homeless;
(4.0) Military barracks;
(5.0) Correctional and penal institutions;
(6.0) Religious institutions; and
(7.0) Worker dormitories.
(Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) (in cooperation with Eurostat), "Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations for the 2010 Censuses of Population and Housing", New York and Geneva, 2006

An institutional household comprises persons whose need for shelter and subsistence are being provided by an institution. An institution is understood as a legal body for the purpose of long-term inhabitation and provision of institutionalized care given to a group of persons. The institution's accommodation is by nature of its structure intended as a long-term accommodation for an institutional household. The great majority of institutions consists of one of the following: dormitories of educational institutions, hospitals, convalescence establishments, establishments for the disabled, psychiatric institutions, old people's homes, nursing homes, welfare institutions, hotels, motels, tourist homes, military installations, correctional and penal institutions, religious institutions, boarding houses, worker dormitories.
(Source: United Nations Statistical Commission and Economic Commission for Europe, “Recommendations for the 2000 censuses of population and housing in the ECE region”, Statistical Standards and Studies, New York and Geneva, 1998) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/Recomm_estat_2010_EN.pdf Recommendations for the 2000 censuses of population and housing in the ECE region, (1998)