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Dwelling
A dwelling refers to a room or a suite of rooms which is intended for year-round habitation; is furnished with a kitchen, kitchenette or cooking area; and has a floor area of at least 7 square metres. Every dwelling must have its own entrance. A single-family house may be entered through an enclosed porch or veranda. If a dwelling is entered through the premises of another dwelling, it is not regarded as a separate dwelling but instead those two constitute one dwelling.
Statistics using the definition
- Dwellings and housing conditions
- Prices of dwellings in housing companies
- Household dwelling units and housing conditions
- Dwelling stock
- Household-dwelling units and housing conditions
- Rents of dwellings
- Buildings and free-time residences
- Building stock and new production
- Building and dwelling production
- Building permits
- Population censuses
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
Related concepts
- Tangible fixed assets
- Average size of dwelling
- Structure of household-dwelling unit
- Dwelling occupancy
- Level of housing
- Dwelling density
- Dwelling population
- Household-dwelling unit
- Residential home
- Dwelling production
- Tenure status
- Room and number of rooms
- Kitchen
- Gross floor area
- Number of storeys
- Free-time residence
- Fixed assets
- Heating fuel/ source of heat
- Heating system
- Floor area
- Building
- Year of construction
- Type of building
- Produced assets
- Elderly household-dwelling unit
- Facilities
- Network connection
- Rental dwelling
AN.1111. Buildings that are used entirely or primarily as residences, including any associated structures, such as garages, and all permanent fixtures customarily installed in residences. Houseboats, barges, mobile homes and caravans used as principal residences of households are also included, as are historic monuments identified primarily as dwellings.
Examples include residential buildings, such as one- and two-dwelling buildings and other residential buildings intended for non-transient occupancy. Uncompleted dwellings are included to the extent that the ultimate user is deemed to have taken ownership, either because the construction is on own account or as evidenced by the existence of a contract of sale/purchase.
Dwellings acquired for military personnel are included because they are used, as are dwellings acquired by civilian units, for the production of housing services.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- EU
Related concepts
- Tangible fixed assets
- Average size of dwelling
- Structure of household-dwelling unit
- Dwelling occupancy
- Level of housing
- Dwelling density
- Dwelling population
- Household-dwelling unit
- Residential home
- Dwelling production
- Tenure status
- Room and number of rooms
- Kitchen
- Gross floor area
- Number of storeys
- Free-time residence
- Fixed assets
- Heating fuel/ source of heat
- Heating system
- Floor area
- Building
- Year of construction
- Type of building
- Produced assets
- Elderly household-dwelling unit
- Facilities
- Network connection
- Rental dwelling
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