Family Type by Living with Other Families status

Field: Family Type by Living with Other Families status

Description

Family Type by Living with Other Families status, 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

Pensioner couple living with others

Pensioner couple living alone

Single male pensioner living with others

Single male pensioner living alone

Single female pensioner living with others

Single female pensioner living alone

Couple with children living with others

Couple with children living alone

Single with children living with others

Single with children living alone

Couple without children living with others

Couple without children living alone

Single male without children living with others

Single male without children living alone

Single female without children living with others

Single female without children living alone

Number of categories: 16

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.

Separate categories for single male with children and single female with children are not provided to maintain data confidentiality.

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