Census of Population - Collective Dwelling Status and Classification Survey

Survey purpose

Statistics Canada is conducting this survey to prepare for the 2026 Census.

The purpose of the survey is to confirm the facility's address and contact information, and to collect information on the type of facility in order to improve the efficiency of collecting census data.

The information you provide now may make completing the census questionnaire easier for you next year.

Authority and confidentiality

Your answers are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act and will be kept strictly confidential. Statistics Canada can share your information with your consent or, in limited cases, where permitted by the Statistics Act. The information you provide may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Record linkages

Statistics Canada may combine your responses from this survey with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Voluntary participation

Participation in this survey is voluntary, but your participation is important so that the information collected is as accurate and complete as possible.

Facility and contact information

1. Verify or provide the facility name and correct where needed.

Facility name

2. Is this the civic address of this facility?

Note: If the address below is missing or incomplete, please answer "No" and provide the complete address.

• Yes
• No
  • Please enter the civic address of this facility.
    Note: For a non-civic address, please provide a rural route or land description in the "Street name" field.
    Example: 63532 Range Rd 444 or NW-34-42-4-W3
    • Civic number
    • Suffix
    • Unit number
    • Street name
    • Street type
    • Direction
    • City, municipality, town or village
    • Province or territory
    • Postal code
      Example: A9A 9A9

3. Verify or provide the following information of the designated contact person for this facility and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire but may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

• First name
• Last name
• Title
• Preferred language of communication
• Email address
  Example: user@example.gov.ca
• Telephone number (including area code)
  Example: 123-123-1234
• Extension number (if applicable)

Dwelling type definitions

In preparation for the 2026 Census, the Collective Dwelling Status and Classification Survey asks about the services provided at this facility, as well as any additional collective dwellings or private dwellings that may be located at this address.

A collective dwelling is a dwelling of a commercial, institutional or communal nature in which a person or group of persons resides or could reside. The collective dwelling must provide care, services or common facilities shared by the occupants, such as a kitchen, dining room or bathroom. Examples include long-term care homes, residences for older adults, lodging or rooming houses, correctional facilities, group homes, hotels, motels, tourist establishments, hospitals, staff residences, military bases, and work camps.

A private dwelling is a separate set of living quarters that shares the same civic address as the collective dwelling but has a different apartment or unit number. The private dwelling must have a private entrance either from outside the building or from a common hall, lobby, vestibule or stairway inside the building and cannot be accessed through another person's living quarters. Residents of the private dwelling do not receive any care or services provided by the facility.

Collective dwelling types

1. Which of the following best describes this facility?

• Hospital
  • If selected, go to Question 4.
    • Is this facility licensed as a hospital?
      • Yes
      • No
• Long-term care home or residence for older adults
  • Select the most applicable:
    • Long-term care home

      A facility that provides 24-hour nursing care or personal care. Residents receive help for most or all daily activities.

    • Residence for older adults

      A facility that offers personal support and assisted living care. Services are provided as part of the rent or available for an additional fee paid to the facility, e.g., retirement homes or assisted living homes. These facilities do not provide 24-hour nursing or personal care.

    • Both long-term care home and residence for older adults
    • No care or services are provided to residents
      • If selected, go to Question 6.
• Residential care facility related to disabilities, mental health, addiction, etc.
  • This facility is for:
    Select all that apply.
    • Primarily children or minors
    • Persons with psychological disabilities
    • Persons with an addiction
    • Persons with physical challenges or disabilities
    • Persons with developmental disabilities
    • Persons with other disabilities
      • Specify
• Shelter
  • This facility is primarily for:
    • Persons lacking a fixed address, such as homeless persons
    • Persons released from custody or on conditional release
    • Victims of domestic violence or abuse
    • Refugees and asylum seekers
    • Other
      • Specify
• Correctional or custodial facility, including municipal detachments
  • What type of facility is this?
    • Young offenders' facility
    • Temporary lock-up (e.g., police holding cell)
    • Provincial or territorial detention centre or custodial facility
    • Federal correctional facility
• Religious establishment
• Establishment with temporary accommodation services
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Hotel, motel or tourist establishment
    • Campground or park
    • Other establishment with temporary accommodation services, such as a YMCA-YWCA, Ronald McDonald House, or hostel
• Lodging or rooming house
  • If selected, exit survey.
• Hutterite colony
  • If selected, exit survey.
• Other establishment
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Residence for school or training centre
    • Military base
    • Commercial vessel
    • Work camp
    • Government vessel
    • Other type of establishment
• None of the above
  • If selected, go to Question 2.

If no answer is selected, go to Question 2.

Go to Question 5, unless otherwise specified.

The following question will help determine whether this establishment should be included in this questionnaire or not.

2. Does this establishment allow for a person or group of persons to stay overnight?

• Yes
  • Does this establishment provide care, service or shared amenities?
    Include:
    • any medical service, health care or personal care that is provided by the facility
    • shared amenities, which include access to a common kitchen, dining room or bathroom.
    Exclude:
    • short-term vacation rentals, such as bed and breakfasts (e.g., Airbnb, Vrbo, etc.)
    • services not provided by the establishment (e.g., Uber, SkipTheDishes, HelloFresh, etc.).
      • Yes
      • No
        • If no, go to Question 6.
• No
  • If no, go to Question 6.

Go to Question 3, unless otherwise specified.

3. Based on the answers provided, this facility should be included. Which of the following options best describes the primary purpose of this facility?

• Hospital
  • If selected, go to Question 4.
    • Is this facility licensed as a hospital?
      • Yes
      • No
• Long-term care home or residence for older adults
  • Select the most applicable:
    • Long-term care home

      A facility that provides 24-hour nursing care or personal care. Residents receive help for most or all daily activities.

    • Residence for older adults

      A facility that offers personal support and assisted living care. Services are provided as part of the rent or available for an additional fee paid to the facility, e.g., retirement homes or assisted living homes. These facilities do not provide 24-hour nursing or personal care.

    • Both long-term care home and residence for older adults
• Residential care facility related to disabilities, mental health, addiction, etc.
  • This facility is for:
    Select all that apply.
    • Primarily children or minors
    • Persons with psychological disabilities
    • Persons with an addiction
    • Persons with physical challenges or disabilities
    • Persons with developmental disabilities
    • Persons with other disabilities
      • Specify
• Shelter
  • This facility is primarily for:
    • Persons lacking a fixed address, such as homeless persons
    • Persons released from custody or on conditional release
    • Victims of domestic violence or abuse
    • Refugees and asylum seekers
    • Other
      • Specify
• Correctional or custodial facility, including municipal detachments
  • What type of facility is this?
    • Young offenders' facility
    • Temporary lock-up (e.g., police holding cell)
    • Provincial or territorial detention centre or custodial facility
    • Federal correctional facility
• Religious establishment
• Establishment with temporary accommodation services
  e.g., hotel, campground
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Hotel, motel or tourist establishment
    • Campground or park
    • Other establishment with temporary accommodation services, such as a YMCA-YWCA, Ronald McDonald House, or hostel
• Lodging or rooming house
  • If selected, exit survey.
• Hutterite colony
  • If selected, exit survey.
• Other establishment
  e.g., residence for school, work camp
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Residence for school or training centre
    • Military base
    • Commercial vessel
    • Work camp
    • Government vessel
    • Other type of establishment
      • Specify

Go to Question 5, unless otherwise specified.

4. What services are provided at this hospital?

• Short-term care
• Long-term acute care
  • Is there also a care home for older adults at this facility?
    • Yes
    • No
• Both short-term care and long-term acute care
  • Is there also a care home for older adults at this facility?
    • Yes
    • No

Go to Question 5.

Maximum capacity

5a. What is the maximum number of persons who could stay overnight?

5b. What is the maximum number of persons who could stay overnight, including the long-term care home?

Note 1: If the number of persons is unknown, enter your best estimate.

Note 2: Do not report for the Canadian Forces Housing Agency (CFHS) or Personnel Support Program (PSP) military housing. If the number of persons is unknown, enter your best estimate.

Maximum number
If the number is zero, go to Question 6.

Go to Question 7, unless otherwise specified.

Operation status

6. Based on the answers provided, this establishment either does not allow for persons to stay overnight or does not provide care, services or shared amenities and as a result does not meet the requirements for this questionnaire.

Select the option that best describes the operational status.

• Seasonal operations
  • When did this establishment close for the season?
    Example: YYYY-MM-DD
  • When does this establishment expect to resume operations?
    Example: YYYY-MM-DD
• Temporarily inactive
  • When did this establishment become temporarily inactive?
    Example: YYYY-MM-DD
  • When does this establishment expect to resume operations?
    Example: YYYY-MM-DD
  • Why is this establishment temporarily inactive?
• Ceased operations
  • When did this establishment cease operations?
    Example: YYYY-MM-DD
  • Why did this establishment cease operations?
    • Bankruptcy
    • Liquidation
    • Dissolution
    • Other
      • Specify the other reasons why operations ceased
• Private dwelling
  • When did this establishment become a private dwelling?
    Example: YYYY-MM-DD
  • Other
    • Specify

Go to Question 18.

Additional collective dwellings

7. Are there any other facilities that share the same address with this facility?

• Yes
  • Number of facilities
    • If the number is zero, go to Question 12.
    • If the number is greater than 0 and less than 100, go to Question 8.
• No

Go to Question 12, unless otherwise specified.

8. What is the name of this facility?

Facility name

Go to Question 9.

9. Which of the following best describes this facility?

• Hospital
  • Is this facility licensed as a hospital?
    • Yes
    • No
• Long-term care home or residence for older adults
  • Select the most applicable:
    • Long-term care home

      A facility that provides 24-hour nursing care or personal care. Residents receive help for most or all daily activities.

    • Residence for older adults

      A facility that offers personal support and assisted living care. Services are provided as part of the rent or available for an additional fee paid to the facility, e.g., retirement homes or assisted living homes. These facilities do not provide 24‑hour nursing or personal care.

    • Both long-term care home and residence for older adults
    • No care or services are provided to residents
• Residential care facility related to disabilities, mental health, addiction, etc.
  • This facility is for:
    Select all that apply.
    • Primarily children or minors
    • Persons with psychological disabilities
    • Persons with an addiction
    • Persons with physical challenges or disabilities
    • Persons with developmental disabilities
    • Persons with other disabilities
      • Specify
• Shelter
  • This facility is primarily for:
    • Persons lacking a fixed address, such as homeless persons
    • Persons released from custody or on conditional release
    • Victims of domestic violence or abuse
    • Refugees and asylum seekers
    • Other
      • Specify
• Correctional or custodial facility, including municipal detachments
  • What type of facility is this?
    • Young offenders' facility
    • Temporary lock-up (e.g., police holding cell)
    • Provincial or territorial detention centre or custodial facility
    • Federal correctional facility
• Religious establishment
• Establishment with temporary accommodation services
  e.g., hotel, campground
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Hotel, motel or tourist establishment
    • Campground or park
    • Other establishment with temporary accommodation services, such as a YMCA-YWCA, Ronald McDonald House, or hostel
• Lodging or rooming house
• Hutterite colony
• Other establishment
  e.g., residence for school, work camp
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Residence for school or training centre
    • Military base
    • Commercial vessel
    • Work camp
    • Government vessel
    • Other type of establishment
      • Specify

Go to Question 10.

10. What is the suite or unit number of this facility?

Suite or unit number

Go to Question 11.

11. Are you the contact person for this facility?

• Yes, I am the contact person
• No, someone else is the contact person
  • Please provide the contact information for this person.
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Title
    • Preferred language of communication
    • Email address
      Example: user@example.gov.ca
    • Telephone number (including area code)
      Example: 123-123-1234
    • Extension number (if applicable)

Go to Question 12.

Private dwellings at this facility

12. Are there any private dwellings that share this address with this facility?

• Yes
  • Number of dwellings
    • If the number is zero, go to Question 14.
    • If the number is greater than 0 and less than 100, go to Question 13.
    • If the number is greater than 99, go to Question 14.
• No

Go to Question 14, unless otherwise specified.

13. Provide the information for each private dwelling.

• Unit or apartment number
• Is this dwelling occupied or unoccupied?
  • Occupied
  • Unoccupied

Go to Question 14.

Additional collective dwellings at a different address

14. Are you the contact person for any other facilities that have not been mentioned?

• Yes
  • Number of facilities
    • If the number is zero, go to Question 18.
    • If the number is greater than 0 and less than 100, go to Question 15.
• No

Go to Question 18, unless otherwise specified.

15. What is the name of this facility?

Facility name

Go to Question 16.

16. Which of the following best describes this facility?

• Hospital
  • Is this facility licensed as a hospital?
    • Yes
    • No
• Long-term care home or residence for older adults
  • Select the most applicable:
    • Long-term care home

      A facility that provides 24-hour nursing care or personal care. Residents receive help for most or all daily activities.

    • Residence for older adults

      A facility that offers personal support and assisted living care. Services are provided as part of the rent or available for an additional fee paid to the facility, e.g., retirement homes or assisted living homes. These facilities do not provide 24-hour nursing or personal care.

    • Both long-term care home and residence for older adults
    • No care or services are provided to residents
• Residential care facility related to disabilities, mental health, addiction, etc.
  • This facility is for:
    Select all that apply.
    • Primarily children or minors
    • Persons with psychological disabilities
    • Persons with an addiction
    • Persons with physical challenges or disabilities
    • Persons with developmental disabilities
    • Persons with other disabilities
      • Specify
• Shelter
  • This facility is primarily for:
    • Persons lacking a fixed address, such as homeless persons
    • Persons released from custody or on conditional release
    • Victims of domestic violence or abuse
    • Refugees and asylum seekers
    • Other
      • Specify
• Correctional or custodial facility, including municipal detachments
  • What type of facility is this?
    • Young offenders' facility
    • Temporary lock-up (e.g., police holding cell)
    • Provincial or territorial detention centre or custodial facility
    • Federal correctional facility
• Religious establishment
• Establishment with temporary accommodation services
  e.g., hotel, campground
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Hotel, motel or tourist establishment
    • Campground or park
    • Other establishment with temporary accommodation services, such as a YMCA-YWCA, Ronald McDonald House, or hostel
• Lodging or rooming house
• Hutterite colony
• Other establishment
  e.g., residence for school, work camp
  • What type of establishment is this?
    • Residence for school or training centre
    • Military base
    • Commercial vessel
    • Work camp
    • Government vessel
    • Other type of establishment
      • Specify

Go to Question 17.

17. What is the civic address of this facility?

• Civic number
• Suffix
• Unit number
• Street Name
• Street type
• Direction
• City, municipality, town or village
• Province or territory
• Postal code
  Example: A9A 9A9

Go to Question 18.

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