Extended family type

Variable Description

Name

e_fam_type_code ^en-NZ

Label

Extended family type ^en-NZ

Description

An extended family is a group of related people who usually reside together:

either as a family nucleus with one or more other related people, or
as two or more related family nuclei, with or without other related people.

Included are people who were absent on census night but who usually live in a particular dwelling and are members of an extended family in that dwelling, as long as they were reported as being absent by the reference person on the dwelling form or the household summary page.

See also ‘Absentee’, ‘Usual residents’, and ‘Usual residents in private dwellings’ in Individual definitions.

For full classification with levels 1-2 see Aria.

^en-NZ

This variable is not part of a dataset.