Term:
Collective Households
Definition:
It refers to the place constructed for the residence of a group of individuals, who live therein and benefit from the services it provides. The collective household; it may be comprised of one building or more or one housing unit or more. Examples of collective households include hotels, hostels, elderly and orphans homes, psycho-therapy clinics and hospitals, collective households for university students, collective living quarters (camps) at the passages, and housing units of priests and nuns in the monasteries and churches (who do not have other households).
Domain:
Population
Source:
UNSTAT: Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses; Series M No. 67/Rev.2