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SearchA communal establishment is an establishment with full-time or part-time supervision providing residential accommodation, such as student halls of residence, boarding schools, armed forces bases, hospitals, care homes, and prisons.
When interpreting the data, it is important to keep in mind that the census was conducted during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which may have affected the number of residents in certain types of communal establishment. For example, the disruption of international travel may have led to a lower number of students in education establishments than would otherwise have been expected, because of a reduction in the number of students arriving from overseas.
A managed communal establishment is a place that provides managed full-time or part-time supervision of residential accommodation.
Examples include:
It does not include sheltered accommodation, serviced apartments, nurses’ accommodation, and houses rented to students by private landlords. These are households.
A usual resident of a communal establishment is either:
A household is defined as:
This includes:
A household must contain at least one person whose place of usual residence is at the address. A group of short-term residents living together is not classified as a household, and neither is a group of people at an address where only visitors are staying.
Source:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/communalestablishmentresidentsenglandandwales/census2021
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Type of information | Census 2021 |
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