Household Composition - 10 Categories

Description

Identifies whether a person lives in a household by classifying the household according to the relationships between the household members. 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). A family consists of a couple (married, civil partnership or cohabiting) with or without children, or a lone parent and their children. It also includes a married, civil partnership or cohabiting couple with their grandchildren or a lone grandparent with their grandchildren, if there is no parent in the intervening generation in the household. Children in couple families do not need to belong to both members of the couple. This variable applies to all people living in households. As such, this variable reports 'No code required' for the subset of the population living in communal establishments.

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Variable categories

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A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
One person household: Aged 66 and over 1
One person household: Other 2
Single family household: Couple family household: No children 3
Single family household: Couple family household: Dependent children 4
Single family household: Couple family household: All children non-dependent 5
Single family household: Lone parent family: With dependent children 6
Single family household: Lone parent family: All children non-dependent 7
Single family household: Other family composition (including all aged 66 and over) 8
Other household types 9
No code required -8