Plain language definition
Dwelling used for commercial, institutional or communal purposes, such as a hotel, a hospital or a work camp.
Detailed definition
Refers to a dwelling of a commercial, institutional or communal nature. It may be identified by a sign on the premises or by an enumerator speaking with the person in charge, a resident, a neighbour, etc. Included are lodging or rooming houses, hotels, motels, tourist homes, nursing homes, hospitals, staff residences, communal quarters (military bases), work camps, jails, group homes, and so on. Collective dwellings may be occupied by usual residents or solely by foreign and/or temporary present persons.
Values (English)
Total - Type of collective dwelling
Health care and related facilities
General and speciality hospitals
Nursing homes, chronic care and long-term care hospitals
Residences for senior citizens
Group homes or institutions for the physically handicapped and treatment centres
Group homes or institutions for people with psychiatric disorders or developmental disabilities
Correctional and penal institutions
Shelters
Group homes for children and youth
Service collective dwellings
Lodging and rooming houses
Hotels, motels and other establishments with temporary accommodation services
Other service collective dwellings
Religious establishments
Hutterite colonies
Other