Tenure Type of the Household of the Individual

Field: Tenure Type of the Household of the Individual

Description

The type of home ownership or renting by the household, as reported by the FRS respondent, where:

The definition of a household used in the Family Resources Survey (FRS) is 'one person living alone or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address who share cooking facilities and share a living room, sitting room, or dining area'. So, for example, a group of students with a shared living room would be counted as a single household even if they did not eat together, but a group of bed-sits at the same address would not be counted as a single household. A household may consist of one or more benefit units, which in turn will consist of one or more people (adults and children) - see Family Type for more information.

Classification

Applicable to: All Individuals.

Owned outright/Buying with a mortgage:

Owned outright: households who have paid off any mortgage or loan used to purchase the property. These households may have other loans secured on their property for which information is collected on the FRS. However, these payments are excluded from housing costs.
Buying with a mortgage: includes local authority and housing association part-own/part-rent, and co- and shared ownership arrangements.

Social rented sector tenants: includes all cases where the local authority is the landlord and all housing associations, including New Town Development Corporations and the Scottish Special Housing Association except where accommodation is part of a job.

All rented privately: all cases where the property is rented from a private landlord, including rent-free. Rent-free accommodation is any accommodation provided free by an employer or by an organisation to a self-employed respondent, provided that the normal activities of the tenant are to further the cause of the organisation (e.g. Church of England clergy). Accommodation is not rent-free if anyone, apart from an employer or organisation, is paying a rent or mortgage on a property on behalf of the respondent.)

Number of high level categories: 3

Number of lower level categories: 4

Quality Statement

Prior to 2008/09, social renting was split into council and housing association groups. This division has been removed because it was found to be unreliable. Comparison with administrative data showed that a significant number of housing association tenants wrongly reported that they were council tenants.

A split between furnished and unfurnished private renting was also removed in 2008/09 due to lack of interest from FRS data users.

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