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BUILDING: Any independent free-standing structure comprising one or more rooms or other spaces, covered by a roof, enclosed with external walls or dividing walls which extend from the foundations to the roof, and intended for residential or other purposes.
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REFERENCE PERIOD: The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
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DWELLING: A separate and independent place which was built, rebuilt, enlarged or converted to be used as a private accommodation, and that is not totally occupied for other purposes during the reference period. Separate means hat the place is enclosured by classic or any other type of walls, covered, and allowing a person or group of persons to sleep, cook and shelter from intemperate weather, apart from other members of the collectivity. Independent means that its occupants do not have to pass or go through any other dwelling to get in or out the dwelling they live in.
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CONVENTIONAL DWELLING: A room or suite of rooms and its accessories in a permanent building or structurally separated part thereof which, by the way it has been built, rebuilt or converted, is intended for habitation by one household. It should have a separate access to a street (direct or via a garden or grounds) or to a common space within the building (staircase, passage, gallery and so on). Detached rooms for habitation which are clearly built, rebuilt, converted, etc., to be used as part of a dwelling should be counted as part of the dwelling.
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PLACE OF USUAL RESIDENCE: Living quarter that is the residence of at least one household for most of the year or to which the household has transferred all or most of its belongings.
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OWNER: Accommodations may be owned by their occupants orother entities, according to the following classification: parents orgrandparents, children or grandchildren, individuals or privately ownedcompanies, the state or other non-profit-making institutions, public corporations,local authorities and housing cooperatives.
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CONSTRUCTION TIME OF A BUILDING: This is the period of construction of the building itself or the period of construction of the main part of the building, when different parts of a building correspond to different ages or the reconstruction period for the buildings completely overhauled.
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