Certain definitions for buildings censuses:

1 - Building:
 A - Architectural Building:

A self-contained structure that has a foundation independent of the neighboring buildings, that is permanently based on the land, and has one or more entrances located on the public road. It required that the building must have a foundation, walls, and a roof or more. The annexes and shops built and built within the boundaries of the “original building plot” are not considered to be self-contained architectural buildings. Where it is considered within the components of the architectural building, and each of the water tanks, oil depots, electricity towers, oil towers, bus stations, domestic poultry pens, private garages, football fields, public and private gardens, and public toilets are not considered architectural buildings on their own unless they are actually used or a part of them is used for housing or work . The walls of an architectural building may be built of bricks, stone, woven, iron, cloth, mats, or tins. . Etc. 

1- Traditional Buildings:
• Building: An independent building consisting of one or more floors containing more than one apartment and was established mainly to be inhabited by more than one family. In the event that the building has more than one floor, the ladder that connects these floors must be external.
The basement is considered a floor just as the rooms above the roof are considered a floor.
• Villa: A stand-alone building of a modern type consisting of one or more floors. It is mainly established to be inhabited by one family even if it was occupied by more than one family at the time of selection. In the event that the villa contains more than one floor, the ladder that connects them must be internal. In some cases, the villa may contain more than one apartment and it may be surrounded by a walled or unfenced vacant land, and it may be surrounded by a garden. On this basis, it is not considered a villa in the census custom of housing units consisting of more than one floor in a building and connected by an internal staircase. Metaphorically, it is a villa because it is not a separate building, but rather it is part of a building.
• Palace:  An independent building consisting of one or more floors (of the modern or old type). Its external shape indicates that it is a palace. It is usually surrounded by a large wall, a garden, and several internal buildings for services.
•Eastern house:An independent building of the old type that has an inner (yard) to which the rooms of the building open to. This building in most cases consists of one ground floor, but in some cases it may consist of two or three floors at most.
•-Traditional buildings classified according to the type of use: Independent buildings that may contain more than one building. Restaurant - gym - administrative building).
•Other traditional buildings: A building that was established mainly to carry out work, service, entertainment, education or sports, which are difficult to describe by the names of traditional buildings shown in the building census form, and it may be (separate room - shop - factory, etc.).

2-Marginal Building:

Defined as architectural buildings constructed in the form of a chalet, chalet, for example,  that is, those buildings that do not apply to any of the previous definitions of traditional buildings. Each of them is defined as the following:
• Shubra: an architectural building of one floor. Its walls are made of bricks or corrugated galvanised iron as well as its celling. It is intended for either housing, work, or both.
• Chalet: An architectural building of one or more floors, usually built on the seashore and used for housing or temporary residence on the seashore.
• Other marginal buildings:  An architectural building built on a temporary basis whose walls are made of wood, corrugated galvanised iron, reeds, or mats. None of the aforementioned definitions of marginal buildings apply to it. Tents, trailers, nest and the boat are also considered among the other marginal buildings and they are often intended for housing.

B - Enumeration Building:

It is part of an architectural building according to the previous definitions as in some cases the architectural building may have more than one entrance on the public road and not all of these entrances lead to the inside of the architectural building, meaning that some or all of these entrances lead to a part of the building. In this case, the inclusions (or the inside of the building) that can only be accessed through one of these entrances are considered a self-contained enumeration building branching from the architectural building. For the purposes of the census, the annexes with separte entrances and a collection of shops that are built on the same plot and built next to the original architectural building, each of them is considered an independent, self-contained census building that follows the architectural building.
The census building may be inhabited or uninhabited and it may be used for housing, work, or both, services, worship, or entertainment. . The building may be of the traditional type, or be of the marginal type or part of the same cases. The census building may have one or more entrances on the public road but all of these entrances lead to the inside of the building.

2- Architectural Building Bensus Number:

 The serial number printed in black ink on a paper designated for this purpose, which is glued to the main entrance of the architectural building, so that the last serial number affixed to the main entrance of the last architectural building in the block indicates the number of the architectural buildings in the block.
 

3- Census Building Number:

The serial number written in the form of an ordinary fraction with its numerator the architectural building census number and its denominator the census building census number so that the last serial number written in the fraction denominator and pasted on the last entrance to the architectural building indicates the number of census buildings that the architectural building includes.

 
4 - Building Regulation Number:

A number written on a blue metal plate installed by the municipality at the entrance of the main building for the purpase of distinguishing it from other neighboring buildings. Bearing in mind that the regulation numbers for each road carry serial numbers independent of the adjacent roads and this series of numbers is proven on the basis that the odd numbers belong to one side of the road and the even numbers belong to the second bank of the road and often the sequence of these numbers is according to the adjacent status of the plots on the road. In some cases, the organization numbers may carry a continuous series for each of the two banks without specifying the odd numbers for one of these two banks, and the even numbers for the other bank.
 

5- Building Type:

The original purpose of establishing the architectural building regardless of its use at the time of sampling for the census (for example, a building that was built for a villa and is now used as a school or a government office, and so on). 

 

6- The Current Use of the Building:

 The type of use of the architectural building or the type of category to which the building belongs in terms of occupancy, such as if it is intended for one of the following cases:
• Housing: If the building is used entirely for private housing occupied by one or more families, or is entirely occupied by collective housing such as teachers’ housing, nurses’ housing, or workers’ housing. . etc.
• Work: If the building is fully occupied by an establishment and one of its components does not house a family.
• For housing and work: If the building is used for both, i.e. if one of its parts is occupied by families or a group residence while the other part is occupied by an establishment in which work is practiced, or it is occupied by a hotel or occupied by a public residence such as a hospital - prison - shelter, etc.
• Empty: If the building with all its units and components, free of furniture, fixtures and fittings. For the purposes of the census, the building is considered empty if the units of the building are fully equipped for housing, but were empty of residents at the time of enumeration.
• Under construction: in the event that the architectural building has not been completed and is not yet occupied. 

 

7 - The number of floors of the building: 

 

• Above the ground floor: The number of floors of the building based on the number of floors constituting its height, including the ground floor if it contains housing units or facilities (shops, etc.). 

Under the ground floor: The number of floors of the underground building (catacombs).
• Number of units in the building: The total number of units in the building, whether they are residential apartments, work offices, or vacant.
The number of dwellings in the building: The number of apartments that are used as dwellings only or are used for housing and work, even if they are vacant. They are counted within the number of dwellings.