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Household—household composition

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Definition

The composition of the household based on the relationship between household members. Households can contain dependent and non-dependent children as well as non-family members The differentiation of households is based on the presence or absence of couple relationships, parent-child relationships, child dependency relationships or other blood relationships.

Components

Data Element
Implemented in 1 data element

Comments

Context:
Together with 'family', household is considered one of the basic groups of social aggregation. Information on household numbers and composition aids in identifying groups within the population such as Indigenous households or the number of people living alone.

Origin:

ABS: Standards for statistics on families. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Cat. No. 1286.0

ABS: Directory of concepts and standards for social, labour and demographic statistics, 1995

AIHW: Data Standardisation Project for the development of a national unit record public housing data set, 1998

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept 1