Wikidata:Property proposal/Number of housing units
Number of housing units edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place
| Description | Number of housing units (dwellings) in a specific place (such as city, county, state, country etc.) |
|---|---|
| Represents | apartment (Q188507) |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Domain | item |
| Allowed values | >0 |
| Allowed units | number without unit |
| Example 1 | United States of America (Q30) → 140,498,736 |
| Example 2 | Kings County (Q11980692) → 1,077,654 |
| Example 3 | Florida (Q812) → 9,865,350 |
| Source | available for different countries, usually derived from a census, example for USA: [1] |
| See also |
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Motivation edit
In the available data about the United States, in previous census there was a mix between number of housings and number of households. With this new created property, I would like to clean up the wrong data and have the target that we have data about the number of houses, number of dwellings and number of households for each place in the United States (as far as covered by the official census). There will be new reliable data every 10 years, so no data spam, the data is quite static. Yellowcard (talk) 14:38, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Strong support This is a siutable property to characterize a populated place in relation to its social structure (inhabitants <-> number of housings). Stefan (talk) 22:26, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Comment "housings" is the wrong word for this, as a noun "housing" mainly refers to the enclosure for a piece of equipment, not a dwelling place. "Number of dwelling places" might be the right term, if that matches what you are trying to describe here. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:01, 28 April 2022 (UTC) "Number of housing units" would also work. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:02, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
- I have checked this, and indeed the United States Census Bureau used "number of housings" in the 2010 publications and has changed the term towards "number of housing units". "Dwellings" does not seem to be used by the USCB, for whatever reason. We can of course find a better term, and as I am not a native speaker, I will let this decision up to you. I would be totally fine with "number of dwellings" or "number of housing units". Regards, Yellowcard (talk) 06:27, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- I changed this proposal to "number of housing units" for now, but we can use "number of dwelling places" or anything similar as well. Yellowcard (talk) 06:30, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Strong support On account of arguments made. --G-41614 (talk) 13:27, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- I changed this proposal to "number of housing units" for now, but we can use "number of dwelling places" or anything similar as well. Yellowcard (talk) 06:30, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- I have checked this, and indeed the United States Census Bureau used "number of housings" in the 2010 publications and has changed the term towards "number of housing units". "Dwellings" does not seem to be used by the USCB, for whatever reason. We can of course find a better term, and as I am not a native speaker, I will let this decision up to you. I would be totally fine with "number of dwellings" or "number of housing units". Regards, Yellowcard (talk) 06:27, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Support as Yellowcard has explained the differences and rationale to me. Makes sense to me, as does their plan for making everything work correctly. — Huntster (t @ c) 08:40, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
