Households and Families
This chapter provides conclusions about households and families, for example the number of one-person households, types of families, persons in institutional households, etc. The subject "households and families" therefore includes attributes which have to be collected and published as core variables for the register-based census, according to the Register-based Census Act and the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
The basis for obtaining those attributes is the data of the Social Security Register. For quality assurance, the data has to be cross checked with comparison data for completeness and consistency. For that, data of the Child Allowance Register and the Tax Register is used.
Households
Households are either private households or institutional households. (Almost) every person is attributed to one of those two types of households. Few persons live neither in a private nor institutional household – they do not have a declaration of main residence (= homeless persons).
Private households
All persons who do not live in a institutional household or are homeless, live in a private household. Here, the term household is equal to dwelling, which means that all persons, who are registered in one dwelling, are counted as members of the same household.
Attributes: size of household, household status, type of household
Institutional households
Institutional households are institutions, which are used for – typically long term – accommodation of a group of persons. They are categorised as followed:
- boarding school
- residence for students
- worker dormitories
- hospitals, convalescent homes, psychiatric instituions
- old peoples’s homes and nursing homes
- establishments fort he disabled
- assisted living facilities for children
- religious institutions
- military baracks
- correctional and penal institutions
- refugee camp
- assisted living facilities and welfare institutions including those for the homeless
Families
According to the nuclear family concept, married or cohabiting couples with or without children or single parents with children constitute a family.
Children are defined as all biological, step or adopted children, who live without their own partner in the same household as their parent(s) and do not have children of their own – regardless of age.
Attributes: family status, type of family, number of persons in the nuclear family
