Household—household composition, housing assistance code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Household composition (housing assistance) |
| METEOR identifier: | 455623 |
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| Definition: | The composition of the household in a housing assistance collection, based on the relationship between household members, as represented by a code. |
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| Data element concept: | Household—household composition | ||||||||||||||||
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| METEOR identifier: | 303379 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Definition: | The composition of the household based on the relationship between household members. Households can contain dependent and non-dependent family members as well as non-family members. The differentiation of households is based on the presence or absence of couple relationships, parent-dependant relationships or other blood relationships. | ||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||
| Object class: | Household | ||||||||||||||||
| Property: | Household composition | ||||||||||||||||
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| Value domain: | Housing assistance household composition code N | ||||||||||||||||
| METEOR identifier: | 455375 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Definition: | A codeset representing the composition of a household in housing assistance collections, based on the relationship between household members. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||||||||||
| Data type: | String | ||||||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Comments: | It should be noted that only usual residents of a household are considered when describing and categorising households by Household type. Visitors to a household are, by definition, excluded from the household. Usual residence of members of a household is defined as '...that address at which the person has lived or intends to live for a total of 6 months of more' (Census Dictionary 1996). | ||||||||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Household—household composition, code N{.N}
Has been superseded by Household—household composition, housing assistance code N
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