Attachment C: GQ

D-1028.4

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

(1-29-2009)

Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

OTHER LIVING QUARTERS (OLQ) FLASHCARD
2010 Census
Side 1 – DEFINITIONS OF PLACES PEOPLE LIVE OR
STAY AND THE SERVICES PROVIDED

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1. Boarding school (except for schools for people with disabilities)
Includes public private, and Bureau of Indian Affairs residential schools that focus on academic
programs for juvenile students in a live-in environment.
2. Correctional facility for adults or juveniles
Prisons, jails, detention centers, halfway houses operated for correctional purposes, residential
training schools and farms, reception and diagnostic centers, group homes operated by or for
correctional authorities, and boot camps for juvenile delinquents.

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3. Fraternity or sorority house for students at a college, university, or seminary
Group housing for students who reside in a fraternity or sorority house at a college, university, or
seminary.

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4. Group home (non-correctional) or residential treatment center (non-correctional)
Group living arrangements in residential settings that are able to accommodate three or more clients of a
service provider that provides room and board and services, including behavioral, psychological, or social
programs. Or, residential facilities that provide treatment on-site in a highly structured live-in environment
for the treatment of drug/alcohol abuse, mental illness, and emotional/behavioral disorders.

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5. Health care facility (e.g., skilled nursing facility, nursing facility, hospital, hospice)
Skilled nursing facility or nursing home providing long-term 24-hour care with licensed nurses for
non-acute medical care. Hospitals and freestanding hospice units.
6. Hotel, motel, hostel, single-room occupancy units, inn, resort, lodge, or bed &
breakfast
All types of lodging facilities that may include permanent housing for some clients and/or housing for
people experiencing homelessness.

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7. Independent living or assisted living facility
Facilities that provide housing for older adults and coordinates personal support services, 24-hour
supervision and assistance to meet needs in a way that promotes maximum dignity and independence for
each resident. These facilities are designed for people who need regular help with the activities of daily
living but do not necessarily require skilled medical care. These facilities may contain a skilled nursing
unit or nursing home.
8. Military Quarters (e.g., barrack/dormitory, disciplinary barrack/jail, military treatment
facility)
These facilities include military disciplinary or non-disciplinary barracks or dormitories and military
treatment facilities.
9. Recreational vehicle (RV) park, campground, carnival, marina, or racetrack
Includes both commercial and private.
10. Religious group living quarters intended to house members living in a group situation
(e.g., convent, monastery, or abbey)
Facilities owned or operated by religious organizations that are intended to house their members in a
group living situation such as convents, monasteries or abbeys. (Seminary students living in group
quarters are classified as college student housing not religious group quarters.)
11. Residence hall or dormitory for students that is owned, leased, or managed either by a
college, university, or seminary, or by a private entity or organization
Group housing for students at residential colleges, universities and seminaries.
12. Schools for people with disabilities (e.g., schools for the physically or developmentally
disabled)
Group housing for students at schools for students with disabilities.
13. Soup kitchen, shelter for people experiencing homelessness, or a facility that operates
a regularly scheduled mobile food van
Soup kitchens and mobile food vans provide meals primarily to people experiencing homelessness.
Shelters are places where people experiencing homelessness stay at least overnight.
14. Workers’ group living quarters or group housing at Job Corps centers (e.g., migratory
farm worker quarters, ranch housing, vocational training facilities, or housing for staff)
Migratory farm worker camps, ranch workers housing, vocational training facilities, and all group housing
for staff in separate buildings or wings.
15. Private residence

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CONTINUE ON REVERSE SIDE

Side 2 – DESCRIPTION OF CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES FOR ADULTS
1. Federal detention center
(also include Metropolitan detention center, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Bureau of Indian
Affairs detention center, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Centers and
contract detention facilities)
2. Federal prison
3. State prison

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4. Local or county jail
or a correctional facility operated by the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribal governments
(also included are work farms and camps holding people awaiting trial or serving short sentences)

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5. Correctional residential facility
(including a halfway house, restitution center, prerelease center and work release center)

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