Mnemonic: families_and_children_welsh_speaker_parents
Applicability: Family
Type: Derived variable
Definition
Classifies the type of family (married or civil partnership, cohabiting or lone parent) and categorises them by whether any adults in that family can speak Welsh. This classification only includes families in Wales.
Classification
Total number of categories: 9
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Married or civil partnership couple: Both members of couple can speak Welsh |
| 2 | Married or civil partnership couple: One member of couple can speak Welsh |
| 3 | Married or civil partnership couple: Neither member of couple can speak Welsh |
| 4 | Cohabiting couple: Both members of couple can speak Welsh |
| 5 | Cohabiting couple: One member of couple can speak Welsh |
| 6 | Cohabiting couple: Neither member of couple can speak Welsh |
| 7 | Lone parent family: Parent can speak Welsh |
| 8 | Lone parent family: Parent cannot speak Welsh |
| -8 | Does not apply* |
*Students and schoolchildren living away during term-time, short-term migrants, people who do not live in Wales, and people not living in a couple or parent-child family.
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
Country specific
What does country specific mean?
This variable has only been produced for Census 2021 in England and Wales.
Find out more about variables produced for Census 2021 in Northern Ireland and Census 2022 in Scotland.