Mnemonic: ce_management_type
Applicability: Communal Establishment
Type: Derived variable
Definition
A managed communal establishment is a place that provides managed full-time or part-time supervision of residential accommodation.
Examples include:
- university halls of residence and boarding schools
- care homes, hospitals, hospices and maternity units
- hotels, guest houses, hostels and bed and breakfasts, all with residential accommodation for seven or more guests
- prisons and other secure facilities
- Single Living Accommodation (SLA) in military bases
- staff accommodation
- religious establishments
It does not include sheltered accommodation, serviced apartments, nurses’ accommodation, and houses rented to students by private landlords. These are households.
Classification
Total number of categories: 26
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Medical and care establishment: NHS: General hospital |
| 2 | Medical and care establishment: NHS: Mental health hospital or unit (including secure units) |
| 3 | Medical and care establishment: NHS: Other hospital |
| 4 | Medical and care establishment: Local Authority: Children's home (including secure units) |
| 5 | Medical and care establishment: Local Authority: Care home with nursing |
| 6 | Medical and care establishment: Local Authority: Care home without nursing |
| 7 | Medical and care establishment: Local Authority: Other home |
| 8 | Medical and care establishment: Registered Social Landlord or Housing Association: Home or hostel |
| 9 | Medical and care establishment: Other: Care home with nursing |
| 10 | Medical and care establishment: Other: Care home without nursing |
| 11 | Medical and care establishment: Other: Children's home (including secure units) |
| 12 | Medical and care establishment: Other: Mental health hospital or unit (including secure units) |
| 13 | Medical and care establishment: Other: Other hospital |
| 14 | Medical and care establishment: Other: Other establishment |
| 15 | Other establishment: Defence |
| 16 | Other establishment: Prison service |
| 17 | Other establishment: Approved premises (probation or bail hostel) |
| 18 | Other establishment: Detention centres and other detention |
| 19 | Other establishment: Education |
| 20 | Other establishment: Hotel, guest house, B&B or youth hostel |
| 21 | Other establishment: Hostel or temporary shelter for the homeless |
| 22 | Other establishment: Holiday accommodation |
| 23 | Other establishment: Other travel or temporary accommodation |
| 24 | Other establishment: Religious |
| 25 | Other establishment: Staff or worker accommodation or Other |
| -8 | Establishment not stated |
*Communal establishments where the management type was not stated.
Quality information
We have made changes to housing definitions since the 2011 Census. Take care if you compare Census 2021 results for this topic with those from the 2011 Census.
Read more in our housing quality information for Census 2021 methodology.
Background
Read about how we developed and tested the questions for Census 2021.
Comparability with the 2011 Census
Broadly comparable
We have removed the category "Medical and care establishment: Registered Social Landlord/Housing Association: Sheltered housing only" from this variable. This is because it is now counted as a household instead of a communal establishment.
What does broadly comparable mean?
A variable that is broadly comparable means that it can be generally compared with the same variable used in the 2011 Census. However, changes may have been made to the question or options that people could choose from or how write-in answers are classified.
England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland comparisons
Highly comparable
What does highly comparable mean?
A variable that is highly comparable means that it can be directly compared with the variable from Scotland and Northern Ireland. The questions and options that people could choose from may be slightly different, for example the order of the options may be swapped around, but the data collected is the same.
Find out more about variables produced for Census 2021 in Northern Ireland and Census 2022 in Scotland.
Census 2021 data that uses this variable
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