Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269567 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Superseded 27/04/2007 |
Definition: | The composition of the family within the household. |
Context: | The family is a fundamental building block of society. As a social entity, it is universal and a topic of interest and investigation by social researchers. In a multicultural society such as contemporary Australia, this interest is stronger and more widespread than ever. Data on families are essential elements for the study of the well being of family groups and in this way for the study of the well being of individuals. |
Household family—family type
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Household family |
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Definition: | Two or more persons, one of whom is at least 15 years of age, who are related by blood, marriage (registered or defacto), adoption, step or fostering, and who are usually resident in the same household. |
Context: | A person's family may form the central core of their support network. The basis of a family is formed by identifying the presence of a couple relationship, lone parent-child relationship or other blood relationship. A family may or may not live together and this co-residence may change over time. Related persons who live in other households may participate in the lives of family members they do not live with in a variety of ways, including financial, material, physical, emotional, legal and spiritual. For instance, frail older people may receive help from their adult children even though they do not live in the same household. Nonetheless, the household family has been traditionally viewed as a building block of society and is the predominant unit reported statistically and historically. Data on families, including co-resident families, are essential elements for the study of the well being of family groups and in this way for the study of the well being of individuals. They can be a tool indicating the type of and level of support to which a person has access. |
Specialisation of: | Person/group of persons |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | This definition is the standard definition for 'Family' of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and is based around ABS collections of information from households. A household may include more than one family. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 1995. Standards for Statistics on the Family 1995. Cat. no. 1286.0. Canberra: ABS |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Family type |
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Definition: | A descriptor of the class of family. |
Property group: | Demographic/social/cultural characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Household—family composition Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Household—family type, code N Community Services (retired), Superseded 27/04/2007 |