Adult Lifestage

Description

Adult Lifestage classifies adults in households by age, whether they live in a one or two-or-more-person household, and whether they share a household with any dependent children. Adult Lifestage applies to all people aged 16 and over living in households. As such, this variable reports 'No code required' for the subset of the population where no response was expected. An adult is defined as anyone aged 16 and over. A 'dependent child' is a person in a household aged 0-15 (whether or not in a family) or a person aged 16-18 who is a full-time student and in a family with parent(s).

Variable categories

Showing all 20 categories from this variable.

A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
Age 16-24 years: No dependent children in household 1
Age 16-24 years: Dependent children in household 2
Age 25-34 years: No dependent children in household 3
Age 25-34 years: Dependent children in household: Youngest dependent child in household aged 0-4 years 4
Age 25-34 years: Dependent children in household: Youngest dependent child in household aged 5-11 years 5
Age 25-34 years: Dependent children in household: Youngest dependent child in household aged 12-18 years 6
Age 35-54 years: No dependent children in household 7
Age 35-54 years: Dependent children in household: Youngest dependent child in household aged 0-4 years 8
Age 35-54 years: Dependent children in household: Youngest dependent child in household aged 5-11 years 9
Age 35-54 years: Dependent children in household: Youngest dependent child in household aged 12-18 years 10
Age 55-65 years: One person household 11
Age 55-65 years: Two or more person household: No dependent children 12
Age 55-65 years: Two or more person household: Dependent children in household 13
Age 66-74 years: One person household 14
Age 66-74 years: Two or more person household: No dependent children 15
Age 66-74 years: Two or more person household: Dependent children in household 16
Age 75+ years: One person household 17
Age 75+ years: Two or more person household: No dependent children 18
Age 75+ years: Two or more person household: Dependent children in household 19
No code required -8