Mnemonic: concealed_family_type
Applicability: Family
Type: Derived variable
Definition
This categorises the type of concealed family, whether it is a lone parent or couple family, with or without dependent or non-dependent children. A concealed family does not include the Household Reference Person (HRP).
Example George and Amy live at the same address as their daughter Emily and her husband and daughter.
Because Emily is not a dependent child and has her own family, there are two families in this household.
Family one are George and wife Amy. George is the Family Reference Person (FRP).
Family two is daughter Emily, husband Simon and their daughter Eve. Emily is the FRP. As there is more than one family in the household, The FRPs are prioritised to decide who is the HRP.
In this household, George is the HRP. This means that Emily's family is a "concealed family". Their HRP is George. They will be included as part of his household in relevant outputs.
Classification
Total number of categories: 11
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Concealed family: Lone parent family: Dependent children |
| 2 | Concealed family: Lone parent family: All children non-dependent |
| 3 | Concealed family: Couple family: No children |
| 4 | Concealed family: Couple family: Dependent children |
| 5 | Concealed family: Couple family: All children non-dependent |
| 6 | Unconcealed family: No children |
| 7 | Unconcealed family: Dependent children |
| 8 | Unconcealed family: All children non-dependent |
| 9 | Concealed family: Couple family with no children: All children in family non-dependent |
| 10 | Unconcealed family: Couple family with no children: All children in family non-dependent |
| -8 | Does not apply* |
*Students and schoolchildren at their term-time address, short-term migrants, and people not living in a couple or parent-child family.
Quality information
Categories 9 and 10 of the concealed family type (concealed_family_type_11a) variable are invalid, with counts of 0 at all levels of geography. These categories were produced as part of the construction process of this variable. Users may ignore or delete these categories.
Read more in our Demography and migration quality information for Census 2021 methodology.
Background
Read about how we developed and tested the questions for Census 2021.
Comparability with the 2011 Census
Highly comparable
What does highly comparable mean?
A variable that is highly comparable means that it can be directly compared with the variable from the 2011 Census. The questions and options that people could choose from may be slightly different, for example the order of the options may be swapped around, but the data collected is the same.
England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland comparisons
Not comparable
This variable is not comparable as the data is not available for all countries.
What does not comparable mean?
A variable that is not comparable means that it cannot be compared for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Find out more about variables produced for Census 2021 in Northern Ireland and Census 2022 in Scotland.