Wikidata:Property proposal/Number of housing units

Number of housing units

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

   Done: number of housing units (P10814) (Talk and documentation)

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	number of houses (P4080) is quite similar, but refers to actual houses. One house can contain more than one housing/dwelling. number of households (P1538) is also similar, but there is not one household per housing. There is some wrong data with this property (also caused by myself) that I would like to clean up based on this proposed property (see also motivation text below).

Motivation

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

 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)

 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)

• @Yellowcard, Dionysos1988, G-41614, Huntster:  Done ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:08, 16 June 2022 (UTC)