Interviewer instructions
Question 6p. Floor space of the dwelling occupied (sq. m)
Completing the answer to this question, the enumerator is to record in a special box in integer numbers (without decimal digits) the number of square meters of useful and living floor space occupied by the household.
To round fractional space to integer numbers the following rules are to be observed: if there are five or more tenths after the decimal sign, then one is to be added to the integer part, if less than five tenths, then the fractional part is to be discarded. (e.g., numbers 23.50 or 23.51 are to be rounded to 24, but 23.49 to 23).
Useful floor space in a detached house, separate or common (communal) flat is determined as the sum of floor areas of all living rooms (including heated and appropriate for habitation attics, verandahs, terraces) and back rooms (kitchens, halls, anterooms, indoor corridors, bath (shower) rooms, toilets, pantries or built-in closets).
Herewith in common (communal) flats the useful space of the whole flat is by convention to be only recorded for one household, which is specified first within this flat.
Useful floor space falling on residents in hostels is measured as the sum of the living space occupied by a household and its share of the back rooms space of the hostel. This part is calculated for one person by dividing the whole space of backrooms of the hostel by the number of beds. E.g., the floor space of backrooms in a hostel is 500 sq. m. and the number of beds is 100. In this case the share of the backroom space for one person is 5 sq. m.
The useful floor space does not include:
staircases, porches, lift lobbies, vestibules, corridors (excluding inner corridors), entrance halls;
built-on unheated rooms (terraces, verandahs, balconies, loggias, attics, mezzanines);
detached summer kitchens, bathhouses, sheds, pavilions, etc.
Living floor space includes the space of all living rooms occupied by a household excluding the space of built-in closets.
If a household occupies part of room, the space of this part is to be recorded (e.g., if the room is 24 sq. m in area and is occupied by two households consisting of 1 person and two persons, then 8 sq. m and 16 sq. m fall on each household respectively).
If a household gives part of the space occupied in rent, the total space, both useful and living, including that rented, is to be recorded for it.
If a household rents dwelling, the enumerator is also to record for it the actually occupied useful and living space.
