Literal question
10. [Number of rooms]
Please enter the number of the following places.
____ Rooms over 12 square meters
____ Rooms over 6 square meters, but maximum 12 square meters
____ Rooms 4-6 square meters
____ Kitchen (4 square meters and larger)
____ Kitchenette, cupboard for cooking (under 4 square meters)
____ Summer kitchen
____ Bathroom, shower-room, wash-basin alcove
Question 10.
A room must have at least an area of 4m2, be supplied with door and window and be used as a room (e.g. living-room, bedroom, child-room). Halls and dinning-rooms supplied with window, as well as consulting rooms, reception rooms and offices should also be considered as rooms. When finding out the floor-space of a room or of a kitchen, the areas of built-in wardrobes and places attaching to the main one without doors (e. g. alcove, dining place) must be added to the area of the given room. If the dwelling consists of one room only, then that room has to be appropriately categorized by size.
Interviewer instructions
10. Number of premises
Only premises provided with direct natural light and ventilation (with doors, windows), with a floor space of at least 4 m2, serving for sleeping or staying during the day (bedroom, children's room, dining-room etc.) should be marked as rooms. The hall and the eating-place having also a window, as well as the premises of room-like character used as consultation rooms, waiting rooms, offices etc. also figure among the rooms.
While counting the total surface of dwelling the floor-space covered by the built-in furniture and the premises adjoining without a door (alcove, dining area) has to be taken into account too.
The premises built and used as a bathroom is regarded as a bathroom even if there is no running water in the dwelling.
In case of one-premises dwelling the total surface should be marked as the surface of the room.
