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Modelling Census Under-Enumeration - A Logistic Regression Perspective

The Scottish 2001 Census - Multi-occupancy

Figure 1.2.12 (13 Kb PDF file) provides figures on the proportion of shared dwellings in each council area.

Residents who live in multi-occupied households are often hard to enumerate. The Census defines this group as being resident in a shared dwelling. More precisely, a household’s accommodation [or space] is defined as being a shared dwelling if:

1. it has accomodation type "part of a converted or shared house",
2. not all (include toilet/bathroom) are behind a door that only that household can use, and
3. there is at least one other household space at the same address with which it can be combined to form the shared dwelling 

If any of these conditions is met, the household space forms a shared dwelling. Therefore a dwelling can consist of one household space (an unshared dwelling) or two or more household spaces (a shared dwelling). A shared dwelling is distinct from university halls of residence, sheltered accommodation, hotels etc., which are known as communal establishments. Most shared dwellings are intended for temporary occupation (e.g. a group of bedsits) and residents are likely to be transient.

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