Definition: Other housing units designed for habitation

Category: Population censuses - UNECE

Other housing units designed for habitation comprise independent, makeshift shelters or structures such as shacks and shanties which have been built of waste materials which are used as the usual residence of at least one person at the time of the census. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/Recomm_estat_2010_EN.pdf
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
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