Lifestage of household reference person, number of adults in employment in household, number of people in household with no long-term health condition and tenure of household

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As Census 2021 was during a unique period of rapid change, take care when using Labour Market data for planning purposes.

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There is evidence of people incorrectly identifying their type of landlord as ”Council or local authority” or “Housing association”. You should add these two categories together when analysing data that uses this variable.

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Summary

This dataset provides 2021 Census estimates that classify all households in England and Wales by lifestage of household reference person, number of adults in employment in household, number of people in household with no long-term health condition and tenure of household. The estimates are as at census day, 21 March 2021.

Variable and dataset information

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Regions

Data for the nine regions in England, and Wales as a whole.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. However, you can choose to filter areas by:

  • country - for example, Wales
  • region - for example, London
  • local authority - for example, Cornwall
  • health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
  • statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

Lifestage of Household Reference Person

Household lifestage classifies households according to:

* the age of the Household Reference Person (HRP)

* whether the HRP is in a one or two-person household

* whether there are dependent children for households that contain two or more people

Number of adults in employment in household

The number of employed adults in a household.

An adult is a person who is not a dependent child. A person aged 16 years and over is defined as employed (or in employment) if in the week before the census they carried out at least one hour's paid work, either as an employee or self-employed.

This also includes:

* any other form of paid work

* being away from work ill

* on maternity leave

* on holiday

* temporarily "laid off"

Number of people in household with no long-term health condition

The number of people in the household who assessed themselves as not having any long-term physical or mental health conditions or illnesses lasting or expected to last 12 months or more. These people are not regarded as disabled in line with the Equality Act (2010) definition of disability.

Tenure of household

Whether a household owns or rents the accommodation that it occupies.

Owner-occupied accommodation can be:

* owned outright, which is where the household owns all of the accommodation

* with a mortgage or loan

* part-owned on a shared ownership scheme

Rented accommodation can be:

* private rented, for example, rented through a private landlord or letting agent

* social rented through a local council or housing association

This information is not available for household spaces with no usual residents.

Important information:
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Variables

Population type
All households
Area type
Regions
Coverage
England and Wales
Lifestage of Household Reference Person
13 Categories
  • Household reference person is aged 34 years or under: One-person household
  • Household reference person is aged 34 years or under: Two or more person household: No dependent children
  • Household reference person is aged 34 years or under: Two or more person household: Dependent children
  • Household reference person is aged 35 to 54 years: Two or more person household: No dependent children
  • Household reference person is aged 35 to 54 years: Two or more person household: Dependent children
  • Household reference person is aged 55 to 65 years: One-person household
  • Household reference person is aged 66 years or over: Two or more person household: No dependent children
  • Household reference person is aged 66 years or over: Two or more person household: Dependent children
  • Does not apply
Show all 13 categories
Number of adults in employment in household
5 Categories
  • No adults in employment in household
  • 1 adult in employment in household
  • 2 adults in employment in household
  • 3 or more adults in employment in household
  • Does not apply
Number of people in household with no long-term health condition
4 Categories
  • All people in household have a long-term health condition or disability
  • 1 person in household has no long-term health condition or disability
  • 2 or more people in household have no long-term health condition or disability
  • Does not apply
Tenure of household
7 Categories
  • Owned: Owns outright
  • Owned: Owns with a mortgage or loan or shared ownership
  • Social rented: Rents from council or Local Authority
  • Social rented: Other social rented
  • Private rented: Private landlord or letting agency
  • Private rented: Other private rented or lives rent free
  • Does not apply

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Protecting personal data

Sometimes we need to make changes to data if it is possible to identify individuals. This is known as statistical disclosure control.

In Census 2021, we:

  • swapped records (targeted record swapping), for example, if a household was likely to be identified in datasets because it has unusual characteristics, we swapped the record with a similar one from a nearby small area (very unusual households could be swapped with one in a nearby local authority)
  • added small changes to some counts (cell key perturbation), for example, we might change a count of four to a three or a five – this might make small differences between tables depending on how the data are broken down when we applied perturbation

Read more in Section 5 of our article Design for Census 2021.

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