Field: Family Type by Children in the Family

Description

Family Type by Children in the Family, as reported by FRS respondents, where:

• a family is defined as a single adult or a married or cohabiting couple and any dependent children (see Family Type for more information).
• an adult living in the same household as his or her parents, for example, is a separate family unit from the parents (see Type of Individual by Age Category for more information).
• a couple is defined as two adults, of same or different sex, who are married (spouse), or from January 2006 in a civil partnership (partner), or are assumed to be living together as such (cohabitee) (see Marital Status of Adults and Type of Couple in the Family of the Individual for more information).

Classification

Applicable to: All Individuals

Number of detailed family categories: 2

Quality Statement

Estimates of the number of lone parent families in the population are provided from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and directly used to weight the HBAI sample. Using this methodology we have recorded a 300,000 jump in the population of children in lone parent families between 2019/20 and 2021/22. Further data points are needed to assess the degree to which this reflects a genuine increase, is due to LFS sample variation, or is a consequence of recent changes to weighting introduced within the LFS. Our assessment is that this jump has had a negligible impact on low income rates.

Further information can be found in the HBAI Quality and Methodology Report here.

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