Same-sex marriage has only been legal in England and Wales since 13 March 2014, in Scotland since 16 December 2014 and in Northern Ireland since 13 January 2020 and therefore does not appear in any LFS dataset until 2015. In the 2015 household registries, we labeled same-sex marriage households. We need to make sure that this flag has been applied correctly before we calculate estimates for these families. The ONS also publishes information on the economic situation of households in the UK and people living in it in the publication on active and unemployed households. Some common themes that emerged from previous analyses of differences between data sources, including: lower estimates of one-person households in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) compared to other non-survey sources because there is no contact with one-person households in the surveys. The surveys also generally provided higher estimates of life partners than the registration data, for a variety of possible reasons, including persons forming a civil partnership outside the UK, before or after civil partnerships became legal in the UK in 2005. In general, however, estimates were found to be similar to other sources because survey methods are very different. Once the Labour Force Survey (LFS) datasets have been received for use in the publication, quality assurance of the most commonly used family and household type variables is performed by comparing one variable to another. The editing rules applied include verifying that: an explanatory document accompanying the publication of the August 2019 publication; This provides information on the complexity of definitions of families and households and examples of families and households and their categorizations. The benefit limit is an upper limit on the amount of benefits a household can receive. It applies if you or your partner, if you have one, are of working age.
A „household“ (current definition, as of 2011) is a person living alone or a group of people (not necessarily related) who live at the same address and share cooking facilities and share a living room, living room or dining room. A household may consist of a single family, more than one family or no family if it is a group of unrelated persons. It does not include people who may live in your household and for whom you are not responsible. If each household had an equal share of total income, the Gini coefficient would be 0. If it turns out that the spouse lives at a chosen address but is absent for more than six months, he or she will not be included in the household. If they are absent for less than six months, they are considered to be residing at the chosen address and can be included in the household by means of a proxy interview. Since a sample of the population is used, estimates of household income are produced. Therefore, there is uncertainty about these figures. Household models include families, mixed families, shared apartments, group houses, guest houses, apartment buildings (UK) and single-family homes (US). In feudal societies, the royal house and medieval homes of the rich included servants and other disciples. Municipal institutions are not included in family and household statistics, with a few exceptions.
This is because the vast majority of municipal institutions (e.g., prisons, hospitals, hotel complexes, and retirement homes) are not selected to participate in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) because they are not considered private addresses. A household of two or more people, neither of whom live as part of a family (i.e. they do not contain a couple or parent with their child). Examples of this could be students or friends who live together, but also consist of two siblings who share a house. The LFS household dataset is to be used for this publication. The household dataset differs from the individual-level dataset in how the weighting is applied to the sample. The weighting of the datasets ensures that the estimates are representative of the entire population. Each person in the sample has a weight which is the number of people that person represents. For those affected by the benefit cap, it is administered through a reduction in the housing allowance. If your household is or will be affected by the benefit ceiling, you will receive a notification from the Northern Ireland Housing Authority about the provision of housing benefit, informing you that the amount of your housing allowance will be reduced due to the benefit ceiling. A type of household composed of both couple households (with or without children) and lone-parent households.
Households in which there is a family and an individual (e.g., a married couple with a daughter and a subtenant or a married couple with an elderly parent) are also classified as single-family households. This definition of the household response unit was used for the 2011 Census and has been used in the Office for National Statistics social surveys since the beginning of 2011. It differs only slightly from the definition used for the 1981, 1991 and 2001 censuses, according to which for the benefit ceiling to apply, a member of the household must receive a shelter allowance. In addition to the budget estimates, the ONS and the statistical offices of each of the devolved administrations (Welsh Government, National Archives of Scotland and Northern Ireland Research and Statistics Agency) produce budget projections for each of the four countries in the United Kingdom. Household projections provide statistics on the potential future number of households for 25 years from the base year. They show the budgetary figures that would result from the implementation of assumptions based on demographic changes in the population and household education. It was decided that the LFS was the best source of data because users were interested in long time series of data and the quality of the UK estimates was robust. In addition, family and household estimates from interviews in the April to June quarter are considered representative for the remainder of the year. Estimates for opposite-sex couple families and households will not be available until sample sizes are large enough to produce robust estimates.
This issue is reviewed annually. If a couple and their dependent child live with a parent (a grandparent of the child) who does not live with a partner, then the classification of that household would be a single-family household with a couple with one or two dependent children. Household income is the total household income before taxes, social security and other deductions. This includes the value of free school meals, free television licenses and other income-related rights. The Gini coefficient measures inequality: the distribution of household income among the population of the United Kingdom. The higher the number, the greater the inequality. Budget figures for England and its local authorities are calculated by the Department for Communities and Local Government from the Household Projection Model using Office for National Statistics (ONS) subnational population figures. Although we publish family tables for Northern Ireland, we do not currently publish household tables for Northern Ireland (our data releases for 2019 and 2020 included data for Northern Ireland). For more information, refer to the User`s Guide. The links in the GOV.UK release schedule indicate the date and place of publication of each new set of estimates.
The estimates are available for free download in Microsoft Excel format and are available with supporting documentation on the Families and Households website. Each publication is accompanied by a statistical bulletin. The underlying data from the bulletin charts and tables can be downloaded. Please note that for the 2020 release, a main bulletin was published instead of a full statistical bulletin. In response to requests from our users, we have expanded Table 5 to include a household of six people and more than seven people for 2015 for the 2020 release. Previously, there was only one category for families of six or more. It is important to note the difference between the LFS definitions of „family unit“ and „family.“ A „family unit“ is either a single person; a married or cohabiting couple; a married or cohabiting couple and their unmarried children who do not have children living with them; or a single parent with such children.