Interviewer instructions
Complete this item for all occupied housing units selected for your assignment. Circle only one answer for this question and note skip pattern.
1. Circle 1 for "Owned by you or someone in this household with a mortgage or loan" if the house, apartment, or mobile home is mortgaged. The unit must be owner-occupied (that is, the owner or co-owner must live in the unit). Include units being bought on land contract or contract to purchase, deed of trust, purchase agreement and units built on leased land if the unit is mortgaged. And skip to H5
2. Circle 2 for "Owned by you or someone in this household free and clear (without a mortgage)" if there is no mortgage or other similar debt on the house, apartment, or mobile home. Include units built on leased land if the unit is owned outright without a mortgage. And skip to H5
3. Circle 3 for "Rented for cash rent" if any money rent is paid or contracted for. Include rented condominiums and cooperatives.
(a) The rent may be paid by persons who are not living in the house or apartment, such as a relative or friend living elsewhere, or it may be paid by an organization, for example, a welfare agency.
(b) "Continuing care," sometimes called life care, is a contract between an individual and a housing services provider. The contract requires the shelter, usually a house or apartment, and services such as meals, or transportation to shopping or recreation. For these kinds of living arrangements, record 3 for "Rented for cash rent."
4. Circle 4 for "Occupied without payment of cash rent" if the house or apartment is not owned or being bought by a member of the household and if money rent is not paid or contracted for. And skip to H5
EXAMPLES:
· military housing
· a unit which is owned by friends or relatives who live elsewhere and who allow occupancy without charge
· a house or apartment provided free to a janitor, caretaker, superintendent, or other employee in exchange for services.
· housing provided free to members of the clergy
· tenant farmer or sharecropper houses for which the occupants do not pay cash rent
Question post text
If answer is either 1, 2 and 4, skip to H5.