Enumerator Manual for National Census of Population and Housing in 2002
[Table of contents omitted]
There are three kinds of housing units to be distinguished:
2. Occupied other living quarter
3. Collective living quarter.
2. In case of the need to decide if a housing unit in which two or more households reside is a single dwelling or two separate dwellings an enumerator should follow a rule stating that: if in a housing unit (or a house) there is at least one room such as a kitchen, bathroom, WC shared by the household, such housing unit (or house) should be treated as one dwelling and should be enumerated on a single Questionnaire A. If none of the rooms listed above is shared -- the households occupy two separate dwellings.
3. Presbyteries, bishop curies etc. occupied by clerics (rectors, vicars, priests at the time of retirement etc.) that Questionnaire A household should be enumerated as dwellings. When reporting a size of the flat (number of rooms and the size in square meters) the rooms dedicated to serving the needs of the religious community (such as parish offices, lecture rooms etc.) should not be taken into account.
In case of two or more clerics living in the same presbytery, in which each of them occupies a separate set of rooms (bedroom, bathroom, anteroom etc.) the sets of rooms should be treated as separate dwelling and all the common rooms (kitchen, dining room etc.) should not be taken into account.
A room situated in a building constructed for other (than housing) purpose but was adopted for housing, e.g. laundry, garage, attic, storage room or other (hotel room, classroom etc.),
Semi permanent room, constructed to be the housing for a group of people or a single person for a limited time-- usually several years, e.g. barrack or container -- dedicated usually to people on the area of natural disasters (floods, fires etc.) and treated as a temporary housing occupied until having a new regular dwelling,
Provisional housing, e.g. shed, hut etc.,
Mobile housing, e.g. construction site trailer, caravan, boat,
Those are used for housing (at the time of enumeration) due to the natural catastrophe or a lifestyle of the enumerated person or family.
2. [technical remarks - p. 22]
2. For every collective housing a kind of housing (position 8) should be indicated by:
writing in symbol 3. collective housing and giving a full name of the institution,
3. If two or more collective housing institutions are located in the same building (e. g. monastery and orphanage run by monastery) separate forms should be filled for every of the institution.
2. In a dwelling, occupied other living quarter or a collective living quarter the following persons should be enumerated:
All the persons staying there temporarily at midnight 20th to 21 of May
A person who died on 21st of May or later should be enumerated.
Persons staying temporarily -- when they visit Poland e.g. visit relatives, came sightseeing etc.
2. A household is a group of persons (related or not) who live together and share the typing living costs.
The main household in the flat is a household of the owner of the flat.
4. An order of enumeration is important. The first person enumerated should always be the head of the household. The head is a person who contributes to the income of the household in the greatest proportion. If two or more persons contribute the same, the head is a person who manages the finance.
The other persons should be enumerated in an order reflecting the relationship to the head of the household -- spouse/partner, single children, children who have their own families, parents, parents in law, grandparents, siblings and their families and persons who are not related.
5. Within a household families will be recognized.
[14. Enumerating persons - Questionnaire A (residential part) p. 24-25]
[15. Enumerating persons in collective housing p. 25-27]
[16. Enumerating homeless people p. 27]
Answer 1 should be indicated also if a person lives under the address but was not present on May 20th at midnight as long as the absence is short-term and due to:
Participation in an organized party (private or institutional),
Answer 2 should also be chosen if a person was absent due to serving in the army on compulsory basis or were imprisoned or arrested.
3. Answer 3. live permanently -- absent stay abroad should be indicated if a person is registered under the address but was absent on May 20th at midnight due to staying abroad (regardless the length of the stay).
For such persons the country they are staying in should be written in.
[technical remarks on how to give the name of the country -- p. 29]
4. Answer 4. stay temporarily -- arrived from other place in Poland should be indicated if a person stays under the address temporarily no matter if:
The stay lasts several days or longer,
The stay lasts several days or longer,
The real time of stay or absence is the time between arrival/departure and day of 20th of May.
In question 5 one answer should be chosen:
2 to 6 months
6 to 12 months
Undergoes the treatment in a hospital or spa even if the treatment lasts longer than 2 months.
Please Notice: The remark above does not concern persons being treated in mental hospital and hospices. Such persons will be enumerated in the places they are staying in.
4. For every person arriving from abroad (answer 5 in question 4) for whom the duration of the stay in Poland is longer than 12 months, the year of arrival to Poland should be given.
Staying temporarily regardless the length of stay or place of origin (Poland or abroad).
3. Answer 8. refugee (for foreigners) should be indicated in case of foreigners who got the status of refugee or are awaiting the decision (after applying for such a status).
4. In case the absence/staying is caused by another reasons than those listed in 1-8, the answer 9 (other reasons) should be chosen. In such a case the specification of the reason of absence/staying is required.
Reason for absence / staying:
Check- out (to nowhere) (symbol 92)
Homelessness (symbol 93)
Others (short term visits, holidays, etc.) (symbol 94)
6. For persons staying temporarily up to 2 months (answer 4 or 5 in question 4 and 1 in question 5) the enumeration should be stopped after completing question 6.
(A person being a head of household should chose answer 1).
3. In case of answer 12 indicated for a person who is a common-law partner of another (but different than the head) member of the household, for both persons numbers of persons being partners should be written in.
4. For persons being children of other members of the household the number of persons being parents should be given. The rule applies to all the persons being children regardless their age, marital status of the fact if they are biological children or adopted ones.
5. For foster children answer 12 should be chosen with except the situation they are related to the head.
2. Special attention should be given to separation. Answer 3 concerns married persons who split up but are not legally separated, answer 6 concerns persons who are legally separated on the basis of the decision of the court.
3. For persons being in an informal relationship the legal marital status should be written in. In case of such persons answer 2 should not be chosen.
From 1945 to 1998 the date of civil marriage should be written in,
After 1998 the date of civil marriage or a religious one as long as it was registered as civil should be given.
The criterion of classification is the fact of possessing the relevant document certifying completion of a school.
2. Depending on the declared level of education the following information should be specified:
Post-secondary -- if the post-secondary required possessing the secondary school certificate (matriculation) or not,
Secondary -- if a person has secondary school certificate (matriculation) or if the secondary was general or vocational.
2. For persons finishing the education in June answer 1 or 2 should be indicated.
3. Answer 3. No should be chosen for persons attending professional courses, computing courses or being post-graduate students.
2. basic activities of daily life (up to the age) are:
For children aged 2-6 -- ability to play together with another children,
For schoolchildren -- attending school and being able to participate in every lesson;
For productive age persons -- ability to learn, work or do housework;
For older persons -- self-service e.g. preparing food, dressing, washing themselves.
2. In case of children aged 16 or less (i.e. born on 20th May1986 or later) answer â1. yes is indicated when a child is entitled to a nursing benefit.
2. For person born outside Poland answer 2.Â other country should be indicated. The name of the country of birth should be written in.
3. The country of birth should be given according to present country/territory the place is located at (e.g. a person born in Lvov should be classified as born in Ukraine regardless the date of birth).
4. In case the person can not specify the country his/her place of birth is located in, the name of the city of birth and the name of the closes big city should be written in.
2. For persons being citizens of Poland only choose answer 1.
3. If a foreign person does not know the country he/she is a citizen of, write in the name of the country he/she was born in.
Being abroad when working in embassies,
Relocation due to war.
3. If a person is enumerated in his/her family locality but was born abroad due to a motherâs temporary stay abroad -- answer 1 should be chosen and the country of birth should be specified in question 15.
4. A person who came back to his/her family locality after an absence lasting longer than 12 months, the year of arrival should be written in and answer 2 or 3 should apply. If a person left the locality for minimum 1 year more than once, the last date of arrival should be taken into account.
5. In case of repatriates, reemigrants, foreigners born in Poland but having no stay permit should choose answer 2 or 3.
2. In case of answer 1. other locality in Poland the name of the current and previous localities must be different. The only exception is the case described in Question 17 p. 2 of the manual.
3. In case of choosing answer 2. abroad the current name of the country should be given .
4. For some people answering Question 18 Questionnaire M (concerning long term migrations) should be filled. Detailed instructions are listed in part V of the manual.
Questions 19-29 should be answered be respondents aged 15 or more i.e. the respondents born in 1987 or before.
Answer 1 concerns also persons serving in the army or being working abroad.
2. Answer 2. concerns persons who are employed (i.e. have a formal agreement with an employer) or have their own business, but in the week of research did not spend even 1 hour working due to: illness, taking care of an ill child or any other member of the family, maternity leave, holidays, strike, weather conditions preventing them from working etc.
3. Classifying a person as working (answer 1 or 2) the fat of having an agreement with an employer not the king of the contract should be taken into account. A working person is also a person that is doing the work without any formal agreement (grey area). Even if a person is registered as unemployed but did some work in the week of research, he/she should be treated as working.
4. Answer 3. no concerns also persons, who usually help in a family business but did not serve any help in the time between 13 May and 19 May 2002.
5. Answer 4. lack of response concerns persons staying temporarily abroad, especially in the case when no relevant information can be collected from the members of the family.
6. In case an employee stays on unpaid or parental leave, the length of the leave should be taken into consideration. If the leave (unpaid or parental) lasts up to 3 months answer 2 should be indicated, if the leave is longer than 3 months -- the correct answer is answer 3.
For persons having more than one job the main job is the job that they dedicate the most time to. If two (or more) jobs occupy the same amount of time, the main job is the job that brings the highest income.
Persons working on commission or employed on the basis of order agreement,
Persons doing the home employment,
Students who are being trained for the profession if they receive an income.
Full-time paid-employees are also workers who work shorter than the typical number of hours due to special legal regulations (e.g. concerning work in a toxic surrounding) or persons serving in the army on a compulsory basis.
A person helping in a family business or working in a family farm can also be classified as an employee.
Answer 3. employer means a person running his/her own business either in agriculture or not, registered or not who employs workers on the basis of permanent job contract.
If a married couple or relatives run the business together only one of the persons can be classified as an employer, the others should be classified as own-account workers. (not employing people) or contributing family workers.
Answer 5. agent (in all kinds of agencies) concerns persons who work on the basis of agency contract/agreement or who run an outpost on the basis of order agreement. The persons employed by an agent are classified as employees regardless the legal form of their job contract.
Answer 7. contributing family worker concerns persons who live in the same household and help in family business (also in agriculture) without being paid.
2. A special attention should be given to the following cases:
As far as other than managerial positions are concerned, the field of work should be specified for example by listing the main activities performed e.g. recruitment executive , financial executive, biology teacher, lift operator,
In case of the owner of small private works and managers of merchant or service works belonging to public sector the manager should be described as âmanager of the works if the only duty of the person is to manage and supervise the workers or an occupation really performed should be listed if the person most of the time performs the work other than supervision,
In case of professional soldiers, the answer âsoldier should be given but in case of people serving in the army on compulsory basis the answer compulsory military service should be noted down,
Policeman, customs officer, fireman, prison worker, should be indicated as âstate agent, a person working in UOP (Office for State Protection) as âpublic servant. In case of workers of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, UOP, police the occupation should be indicated according to general rules,
For priest and other clerical persons the answer âcleric should be listed, page 13
When enumerating farmers, a kind of agricultural activity should be checked and the fact if the work in an agricultural farm done by the respondent is connected to the profile of the agricultural farm. So the occupations regarding farmers should be for example fodder crops farmer, fruiter, cattle breeder, chicken breeder,
In case of farmers being crops farmer and breeding animals at the same time the answer âmixed farming should be given.
2. Describing the kind of economic activity no general terms such as: plant, workshop, office, service point etc. should be given. The correct answer should indicate exactly what the company produces or what services the company offers e.g. shoe production, food processing, producer of building machinery, car fixing, primary school, kindergarten, council office etc. The name of the company or the abbreviation of the name should be given only in case of the companies that are not local and commonly known such as Poczta Polska (Polish Post Office), PKP (national Railway Company), LOT (Polish Airlines). The terms such as building-service company and in case of such answer an enumerator should try to find out if the main activity of the company is the one regarding building or services. The following abbreviations can be used: przeds. (company), spoldz. (society), prod. (production), gosp. (farm).
3. For persons working in agriculture the kind of agricultural activity should be listed e.g. cultivation, cattle breeding, animal husbandry etc. In case of farmers being engaged in cultivation and breeding animals at the same time the answer âmixed farming should be given. The same term should also refer to persons employed in an individual agricultural farm or an agricultural yard.
4. For clerics the answer âministry should be given.
5. In case of soldiers and persons serving in the army on compulsory basis the answer national defense should be given.
6. Policemen, agents of Government Protection Bureau, frontier guards the answer public safety should be given for persons working in prisons-- judicature, for civil servants of the Ministry of National Defense and the agents (UOP) -- public administration.
Additional job is the job which apart from the main job takes up the most time. If two or more additional jobs take up the same amount of time the one that bring more income should be chosen.
2. The number of months should be given as the answer (15 days or more should be calculated as a month). If a person is looking for a job for 14 days or shorter the correct answer is 0.
2. Individual agricultural farmis a farm which covers more than 1 ha of agricultural land and which is owned by an individual person or a group of people.
3. Agricultural plot is a farm which covers more than 0.1 ha and not more than 1 ha of agricultural land and which is owned or used by an individual person or a group of people.
4. An farm animal holder is a person who is not possessing any agricultural land (or the land covers less than 0.1 ha) but owns at least one piece of cattle or/and 5 pieces of flock or/and 1 pig or/and 3 sheep or goats or/and 1 horse or/and 30 chickens or/and 5 female furry animal or/and 1 swarm of bees.
5. Individual farm (plot) covers also:
Land given to teachers and priests (due to occupational reasons,
Land of members of agricultural societies,
Land leased from Agricultural Land Agency, the State etc. Used privately or collectively by farmers.
In a household there is only one individual farm user (agricultural plot user).
Answer 1. should be indicated in case of a person cultivating an agricultural land or possessing the farm animals. A person who is absent from his/her place of living for more than 12 months should not be classified as a farm user.
Answer 3 should be indicated in case of persons who are members of civil companies performing agricultural activity; such household should be enumerated separately.
In case of the presence of individual farm user in the household and the acreage of the agricultural land (given in question 28) between 0.1 ha and 1 ha, Form R2 should be filled.
In case of the presence of farm animal holder in the household and the acreage of the agricultural land (given in question 28) smaller than 0.1 ha, Form R2 should be filled.
Farm (agricultural plots) of civil companies should be enumerated using Form R3
2. The work for agriculture is any work directly involved in agricultural production and work connected directly with running the agricultural farm e.g. managing of the farm, dealing with official matters (visits in offices etc.), direct work on the agricultural farm, preparing the agricultural output to sell, serving of the equipment, transportation of the agricultural output, accounting for the agricultural farm.
The work for agriculture is not:
Homework e.g. Preparing meals, washing, cleaning, taking care of children,
Work connected with forestry, hunting or fishing.
3. The workload should be given referring to the period of the last 12 months (June 2001-may 2002). Only the months in which the work was performed permanently (at least 20 days a month regardless the daily number of hours of work) should be reported.
2. When indicating the source of income the question of the amount of income concerning every single source should not be asked.
3. A person at the age of 15 or more can have his/her own source of income; children aged 0-14 are maintained by the parents.
4.Income from paid employment should be indicated even if a person is currently unemployed but used to receive the income from that source within the last 12 months.
5. Special rules apply to the following persons:
Belong to the monastery, live in the orphanages, community homes etc. (refer to p. 5 question 30),
Are imprisoned or arrested if the isolation lasts shorter than 1 year -- the source of income before arresting should be indicated; in case of isolation longer than 1 year please refer to p. 5 question 30
Are abroad -- the sources of maintenance abroad or the source of income before the departure should be indicated.
Question 30. What is your main source of maintenance? [p. 45-47]
The main source of maintenance is the source bringing/generating the highest income. If a person has/had only one source of income, the source should be treated as the only and main source of income.
Answer 2. in private non-agriculture sector - should be indicated in case of persons receiving income from paid employment in non-agricultural establishments owned by domestic or international private persons or a group of people, communities, political parties, foundations, etc.
Answer 3. in public agriculture sector - should be indicated in case of persons receiving income from paid employment in state or community establishments operating in agriculture, forestry, hunting or fishing. Page 17
Answer 4. in private agriculture sector - should be indicated in case of persons receiving income from paid employment in establishments operating in the field of agriculture, forestry, hunting or fishing and owned by private persons, agricultural communities, producersâ co-operative etc.
Answer 6. in own private farm (or plot of land) - should be indicated in case of persons receiving income from work in their own farm involved in agricultural production regardless if they are the owners of the land or not.
In case of income from private farm the total agricultural output should be taken into account regardless if the output is sold or consumed within the household.
Answer 7. in agriculture outside own private farm (or plot of land)-- should be indicated in case of persons serving for agricultural farms (e.g. dealing with fertilizing the land, irrigation, or dealing with artificial fertilization of animals etc.). The answer should also be indicated in case of persons helping in the family household.
Answer 9. retirement pay of farmers -- should be indicated in case of persons who got the right to pension after giving in a farm (to the state or a legal successor). The retirement pay may be the consequence of previous work or insurance.
Answer 10. pension resulting from an inability to work - should be indicated in case of persons who receive the social insurance benefit, accident benefit etc. The income may be permanent or temporary and are usually based on the decision of a medical doctor, who certifies that a person is not able to work
Answer 11. social pension - should be indicated in case of disabled or handicapped persons who receive the income due to permanent inability to work that occurred before the age of 18 (or 25 if they were in education
Answer 12. family pension - should be indicated in case of persons who receive an income due to the death of a spouse or a parent. The family pension paid to children under 15 should be classified as an income of a person bringing up the child
Answer 13. unemployment benefit - should be indicated in case of unemployed persons receiving benefit after registering in a job agency.
Answer 14. welfare allowance - is a payment granted to persons with no income or if the income is not high enough to satisfy the basic needs
Answer 15. others - should be indicated in case of persons receiving income from any source that is not mentioned above (e.g. alimonies, scholarships etc.). In case of such income the kind of income (according to appendix 2 of the manual) should be specified.
Answer 17. incomes from leasing - should be indicated in case of
persons renting their rooms, flats, buildings etc.
Answer 19. from other household - should be indicated if a person is maintained by a person not being a member of the same household. A symbol of a source of income of a person who is maintaining the respondent (1-17) should be given.
The answer 1-17 should be given basing on the classification for question 30. The answer must be different than the one given in question 30. If a person does not posses the additional source of income the space should be left empty or the symbol 99 should be written in.
2. If a person is granted several benefits, the main three should be indicated using symbols listed in question 30 (symbols 8-15). The order of listing the benefits is not important.
3. Receiving benefits should be indicated even if the benefit was not reported in question 30 or 31 as the main or additional source of income. Contrary to sources of income reported in question 31 and 31 the fact of receiving or not the benefit should reflect exactly the situation at the time of research.
4. In case of persons living in community houses etc, receiving any benefit should be registered even if the benefits fully transferred to the community house as the payment for the stay.
6. Family benefits and the benefit paid for persons over 75 transferred together with the salary or pension should not be registered separately.
2. The enumerated person can select only one nationality, also in case when the parents of the enumerated person belong to different nationality groups (ethnical groups). The nationality of the enumerated person does not depend on the citizenship held by that person.
3. In case of declaring the nationality as non-Polish, select answer 2 and fill in the gap with the declared nationality, e.g.: German, Czech, Slovakian, Russian and American.
The question regarding the language used at home is asked regardless of the question about nationality. The level of language competence declared by the enumerated person is irrelevant.
If the enumerated persons use non-Polish languages, mark answers 2 or 3 and describe the language(es) other than Polish, e.g. English, German, Russian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian etc.
2. Sources of maintenance of household come from the sources of income of particular persons, which are gained in a period of twelve months preceding the census.
The kind of predominant income gained by the members of the household, which is established by combining the individual incomes supplied by same source, is cucial for describing sources of maintenance of household.
The main source of maintenance of household is the source of predominant part of the resources in a household budget, devoted for the needs of every household member/member of the household.
An additional source of maintenance is the second highest income; it cannot be in the same category as the main one.
4. If persons of the same household are on income supplied by sources of maintenance of different categories (in question 30 these persons were marked with X next to different symbols), define which source generates the highest income for the household, i.e. it is its main source of maintenance of household, and which one is an additional source of maintenance of household.
5. While determining the main and additional sources of maintenance of household with the holder of the household or of the agricultural farm/plot, include both the value of the products sold and consumed in the household (consumed or used in further production in an agricultural farm/plot.)
6. The main source of maintenance of household may be equal to the one held by the head of household. However, it is possible that the total income of other members of household gained from one of the income types exceed the income gained by the head of household.
7. The main source of maintenance of household must accord with the main source of at least one person who is a part of this household.
8. After determining the main and additional source of maintenance of household, fill in the slot above the question in section 0/IV with the number of described household, and:
In line b) fill in additional source of maintenance (if present); use the classification of sources identical to the one concerning persons in question 30, (i.e. symbols 1-17). In case when an additional source of maintenance does not exist, fill in the symbol 99.
10. Provided that four or more households have been enumerated in the enumerated quarter, their sources of maintenance should be described on an additional dwelling Questionnaire A (cover). This should be done by writing subsequent numbers of households, i.e. 4,5,6 etc.
The order of households, whose source of maintenance is being described in question 1, section 0/IV, should comply with the numbering of the households established in question 7 of the personal Questionnaire A and information given in the table on page 02 of the cover.
Question 2 concerns households inhabiting dwellings.
2. Answers 1 and 2 are strictly connected to the answers in question 2 Who is the ownership of this dwelling? in section V. Characteristics of dwelling.
Answer 1. Ownership of dwelling or building -- concerns households whose members inhabit in their own building or their own dwelling and this fact is confirmed in section V, in question 2 by answer 1. Is owned by a private person.
Answer 2. Membership of a housing co-operative-- concerns households, which comprise a member of a housing co-operative, holding a co-operative right to an own or rented dwelling.
Answer 3. Main tenant- concerns households, which inhabit on the basis of a rental agreement between the owner or the administrator of the building where the dwelling is situated (also concerns rental of a substitute or social premises).
Category 3 also embraces a rental of the whole estate from the owner of the estate (a private or a legal person).
Answer 4. Sub-tenant- usually concerns the second or third household inhabiting the building as sub-tenant, i.e. a person subletting one or two rooms in a dwelling for a fee where the household of the main tenant, the member of housing co-operative, or the owner of the dwelling has been enumerated first.
Answer 5. Relationship or for perpetuity -- concerns the second or further household residing in their parentsâ dwelling, or children or other relatives, which have been enumerated as the first household in the dwelling. The household inhabiting the dwelling on the grounds of consanguinity may also reside on their own and be enumerated as the only household in the dwelling.
Answer 6. Other - concerns households residing:
As help in the household of the owner of the dwelling or the main tenant;
In return for work in an agricultural farm/plot or other economic activity of the owner of the dwelling or building.
Without any fee and without work e.g. in a form of voluntary work for a person (family) in a difficult housing situation, in return for the supervision of the dwelling;
Without any legal title, i.e. the so-called squatters.
Section V of the form entitled Characteristics of Dwelling (page 07) should be filled in only in case of occupied and non-occupied dwellings.
Select answer 1 also in case, when the person considering the enumerated dwelling as the main or only place of residence is not registered there or is registered only temporarily.
2. A not occupied/vacant dwelling (answer 3) is a place, where nobody has been registered permanently or temporarily and nobody has lived in that place without registration even temporarily. Furthermore, this is a place inhabited by persons not being under the census.
For this type of dwelling fill in the symbol of non-occupied (in the grid situated at the bottom of question 1). The cause of non-occupation should be determined on the basis of the notes in the form N-obw, in grid 15 Notes. The classification of causes given in appendix 3 operates in this case.
May have a share in common estate in a form of a law related with a separate property of the living space, e.g. situated in a building under the so-called condominium.
Select answer 1 also in case when the owner of the dwelling does not reside in it at the time of the census, because they have rented it, made it accessible gratuitously or in return for work to another person or household, or the dwelling is not occupied.
Answers 2 and 3: Is owned/tenant by cooperative dwelling -- concerns proprietary co-operative dwellings (symbol 2) and lodgings (symbol 3) situated in buildings owned or co-owned by the co-operative dwelling with exception to dwellings under the law of separate ownership of real estate in favor of one or several private persons, established by the virtue of the Act on Housing Co-operatives of 15th December 2000.
A tied accommodation (dwelling) owned by a housing co-operative occupied on the basis of the tenancy, e.g. by a janitor, maintenance worker, should be categorized as 3. Tenant by co-operative dwelling.
Handed over to the community (gmina), but remaining at the disposal of public utility units, such as: healthcare units, welfare/social assistance units, educational units, cultural institutions.
Taken over and still owned by Military Housing Agency [Wojskowa Agencja Mieszkaniowa].
Managed by units under the following ministries: Ministry Of National Defense, Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Ministry of Justice and the president of Office for State Protection [UrzÄ d Ochrony PaÅstwa]
Managed by the following organs: state authority, state administration, and state control.
Handed over to diplomatic posts and consulates for use, lease or tenancy, by a unit representing the Treasury.
Municipal enterprises e.g. public transport, waterworks and sewerage, thermal energetic, with the exception of the housing management enterprises;
Private enterprises -- functioning as a partnership/company or co-operatives, with the exception of co-operative dwellings;
Trade unions, associations, foundations, political parties, trade and economic self-governments,
Catholic church and other churches and confessional associations, including catholic universities and church institutes.
Kitchen space and the number of rooms in the dwelling (questions 3 and 4) [p. 53-55]
2. A kitchen with a window and a space (of the floor) of 4 square meters or more should be shown in the first grid, by filling in a concrete number, e.g. 1, 2, 3. If there are other kitchens, e.g. a kitchen without a window or a kitchen as a separated part of the living room, select an appropriate answer by filling in X (next to symbols 6 or 7)
Giving more than one answer in question three is possible but only as an exception, e.g. if the dwelling is inhabited by two households and one has a kitchen at its disposal and the second one has a kitchen without a window. In such case, fill in the first grid with number 1 and in the further part of the question select answer 6.
If some of the kitchen appliances, e.g. washbasin or gas/electric cooker are installed in the ante-room or in a small niche in the living room, it should be assumed that there is no kitchen in the dwelling. In such case select answer 8.
Among the enumerated rooms, indicate a multi-functional room (a combination of the kitchen and living room), irrespective of the fact that the existence of such kitchen arrangement has been marked in that dwelling.
2. Rooms used exclusively for conducting economic activity -- question 4b -- are: seats of companies, offices, law firms, surgeries, studios, workshops, establishments etc. The entrance to these rooms is situated in the same ante-room as the entrances to the other rooms.
The useful floor space of the dwelling does not include: balconies, terraces, loggias, mezzanines, wardrobes and closets in the walls, laundries, drying-rooms, attics, cellars and storerooms used for fuel storage and garage surfaces.
3. The useful floor space of the building usually includes the space of the hall. The hall is not treated as a part of the dwelling and its space is not included in the useful floor space of the dwelling only in case when:
There is more than one dwellings and the hall is treated as a common corridor.
5. In case of single-family buildings under construction but partly inhabited, the useful floor space of the dwelling should include only the surface of the rooms and auxiliary spaces which are completed.
6. The surface of the rooms and other spaces or of their parts built-in a slanting roof construction should be determined according to the Polish standards in the following way:
Of height from 1,4 to 2,19 m- 50%
Of height smaller than 1,40 m -- should be omitted
Do not include appliances which have been out of order for more than a year due to considerable damage.
Part 6b- fill in only in case when in part 6a the given answer is: 1. Yes, both hot and cold water:
Answer 2. Heating in dwelling or in one family building- fill in, when the water is heated in the dwelling by a heater, electrical hot spring, boiler installed particularly for that purpose, or is heated in a single-family building, regardless of the type of heater and its location: in a local boiler house, bathroom or kitchen, or by using solar panels.
Answer 3. Individual central heating -- should be selected if the source of the heat generation is situated in a single-family building (the furnace is installed in an own boiling house in the basement, bathroom, kitchen, or there is an electrical floor heating installed) or the source of heat is situated in the vicinity of the dwelling located in a multi-family building, e.g. the furnace is installed in the kitchen, bathroom (the so-called storey heating)
Electrical air blowers
Electrical mobile oil-firing furnaces like a radiators.
Do not include complementary heating (e.g. additional heating by a fan heater in time of low temperatures)
Answer 5. Two kinds of fuel- should be selected if two different types of fuel are systematically used for heating the dwelling e.g. in a single-family building there is central heating as well as a furnace, and these two means of heating are used interchangeably.
Answer 6. Other -- should be selected if the dwelling (a single-family house) is heated by: solar panels, wind power, the energy is taken from biomass or a hot spring (geothermal). In such case, apart from selecting answer 6, write in the left space what kind of energy this is.
1. Information about the building should be determined only in case of buildings housing more than one dwelling. In case there are two or more enumerated dwellings in the building, indicate information about the building only in the first enumerated dwelling.
2. Information about the buildings housing the dwellings which are managed by legal persons and organizational units without legal personality will be given by the administrative authorities of these buildings.
3. Information about the individual buildings owned by private persons i.e. about single-family houses and the so-called small dwelling-houses should be determined by the enumerator during the census and be directly filled-in to the Questionnaire A.
1. The rules of establishing separateness of the building operating in the census are based on criteria connected to building numeration. According to these rules a separate building is any free-standing building separated from other buildings by free space and with a single ordinal number.
2.In a congested housing comprising buildings of various architectural styles or buildings of a singular architectural style, standing in the so-called ribbon development, as well as in case of semi-detached houses, a separate building is every building or segment with a separate ordinal number.
3. If there are buildings adjacent to each other on the estate with a singular ordinal number and these buildings have walls built from the same materials, they should be treated as one building unless there are significant differences in the height and age of these buildings and there is no doubt that each of these is a separate building. Buildings with outer walls built from different materials should be treated as separate buildings.
While determining the answer only the tenure of the building should be taken into consideration. The land on which the building stands does not have to be owned by the entity owning the building, it may be held in form of a hereditary tenure.
2. A building legally owned by several subjects present in the land and mortgage register is a common real estate.
3. For buildings owned by one party/subject (i.e. there is no space being a separate part of another subject/party) use answers marked by symbols 1-8.
Handed over to the community (gmina), but remaining/being at the disposal of public utility units, such as: healthcare units, welfare/social assistance units, educational units, cultural institutions.
Answer 5. Working establishment company in public sector- regards buildings owned by state and municipal (excluding housing management companies) and state organizational units e.g. universities, research and scientific institutes, art institutions.
Answer 7. Social building company and answer 8. Other -- select according to the rules described in section V, question 2, answer 7,8 (establishing the ownership of dwelling).
2. If the building has been reconstructed after it was entirely destroyed, the year of reconstruction completion is valid. However, the fact of a complete renovation of a building should not be taken into consideration when determining the year of construction. Only the year of its construction is valid in that case.
2. Water-pipe. A building equipped with a water-pipe is a building, where the water mains is delivered to all or some dwellings in the building, as well as where no dwelling has a tap with running water but there is a tap e.g. in the corridor.
2. Permanent residence -- absent up to 12 months, are on the territory of Poland or abroad,
3. Temporary residence for 12 or more months in the country or abroad
This inquiry should be carried out:
In certain collective living quarters i.e. boarding schools, dormitories, university dormitories, hostels, other hotels and guest houses (symbols of the object types: 51, 52, 53 and 62)
The identification number should be copied in the same form from Questionnaire A on which the person has been enumerated.
2. Fill in item 6 with the number which was used to enumerate this person in Questionnaire A.
3. Fill in item 7 with the number of Questionnaire M (from 1 ad infinitum) which is given by the enumerator to persons inquired separately for each space.
2.The community (gmina) of a permanent residence cannot be the same as the community of enumeration (current residence). The only exception is a municipal-country community in case, when the permanent residence is the municipal part of community and the current residence is the country part (or the other way round).
2. The community of the previous residence cannot be the same as the enumerated community (the place of current residence). The exception is a municipal-country community. In such case the community can be the same only in case when the previous residence was the municipal part of community and the current residence is the country part (or the other way round)
3.In point d write the month and year of the beginning and end of the absence.
2. For people who left the current place of residence and went abroad or to another place in the country and have returned, the reason of departure needs to be determined. For other persons it is the reason of arrival to the current place of residence. In case of children write the reason of changing the place of residence by the parents.
2.The source of maintenance should be determined according to the rules described in the guidelines to question 30 in Questionnaire A, in section II of the instruction.
2.If the person intends to change the place of residence (answer 2) ask this person to give reasons of such intention. Give symbols to the reasons just as in question 9 and write them in the grids in the order of importance. One, two or three reasons may occur.
A woman is 16 years of age or more (was born before 21st of May 1986) regardless her marital status.
The research should not be carried (the Questionnaire D) should not be filled in any collective living quarter.
Identification and address data (questions 1-7) [p. 63]
Address data -- questions 1-4,
The number of the person form the personal Questionnaire A-- the number should be listed in question 6 of the Questionnaire D.
4. If there is not any woman in a dwelling or the women present do not fulfill the stated conditions -- only one Questionnaire D should be filled giving the identification number and answers for questions 1-4 and the reason for not filling the form.
2. A woman can answer all the questions 8-14 (full answer) or decide not to answer some of them (partial answers). If a woman is reluctant to answer a question the enumerator should move on to the next question.
3. In a column 3 the month and year of getting married (forming a common-law relationship) should be given.
4. If the marriage or a common-law relationship lasts at the time of the census, column 4 should be left empty. If the relationship ended due to the death of a spouse or a partner, divorce, separation or a split-up, the date of such event (month and year) should be given.
2. In the first column the number of the child should be given.
3. Asking a woman to give the name of the child may make it easier for her to recall the exact information regarding that child. If a live born child died before being given a name -- symbol NN should be listed instead of a name in column 2.
2. If a woman declares that she would like to give birth to a child (answer 1) the enumerator should find out how many children the woman plans to have. The number of wanted children should be listed. If a woman plans to have 10 or more children, number 9 should be given as the answer.
If a woman does not specify the number of children she wants, symbol N should be given as the answer.
[17. Preparation of the documents to be accepted by the census bureau p. 65-66] page 35
[18. Duties of the enumerator after the forms are accepted by the bureau p. 66-67]
[19. Completion of N-obw form p. 67]
[20. Completion of a coding sticker p.67]
[21. Preparation of the C-obw report -- p. 67-69]
Classification of collective housing
(page 01 Questionnaire A, question 8, answer 3)
Hotels for workers 
Institutions taking care of children
Other care institutions e.g. kids shelters 
Community homes for pregnant women and single mothers 
Mental hospital, detoxification centers, nursing homes for drug addicts 
Other collective housing objects
Other collective housing objects e.g. hotels, motels, villas, spas, hospitals etc. 
Other sources of maintenance not from work [and symbol]
Alimonies paid by alimony found or a private person 
Scholarships (including PhD level scholarship) 
Pre-retirement benefit 
Community home, orphanage etc (regardless if a person covers partly the cost of stay or not) 
Monastery (regardless if a person living in a monastery has or not his/her own source of income) 
Other e.g. family benefit, private pension, money won in lotteries, money gained form selling a property etc. 
Reasons for the flat not to be settled [and symbol]
Under the change of the resident (e.g. change of the owner, being inherited etc.) 
In the process of redecoration/rebuilding 
Used seasonally e.g. summer house) 
Rented to the embassy of foreign country 
Used for economic activity only (e.g. as an office) 
(Table with list of countries omitted) [p. 72-73]
[Index p. 74-76] omitted