Household composition

Household composition classifies households according to the relationships between usually resident people. The classification is based on how many and what type(s) of family nuclei were present in a household, and whether or not there were related or unrelated people present.

See also 'Household' in this definitions group; ‘Absentee’, ‘Usual residents’, ‘Usual residents in private dwellings’ in Individual definitions; and ‘Family nucleus’, ‘Familial relationship’, ‘Non-familial relationship’, ‘Related’, and ‘Unrelated’ in Family definitions.