This dataset provides information on where UK armed forces veterans lived: usual residents, aged 16 years and over by whether they have previously served in the UK armed forces in England and Wales.
Child family status
Identifies whether a person is living in a family with a child and has specific categories for those who have children based on the relationship of the parent couple, those not in a family and those who are children in a family are grouped together. Categories were:
• has children (in a lone parent family, married couple family, civil partnership family or cohabiting couple family)
• does not have children or is a child within a family
• living in a communal establishment
Dependent Child
A dependent child is a person aged 0 to 15 years in a household or a person aged 16 to 18 years who is in full-time education and lives in a family with their parent, parents, grandparent or grandparents. It does not include any person aged 16 to 18 years who has a spouse, partner or child living in the household
Ethnic group and high-level ethnic group
The ethnic group that the person completing the census feels they belong to. This could be based on their culture, family background, identity or physical appearance.
Respondents could choose one out of 19 tick-box response categories, including write-in response options. High-level ethnic group refers to the first stage of the two-stage ethnic group question. High-level groups refer to the first stage where the respondent identifies through one of the following options:
"Asian, Asian British, Asian Welsh"
"Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African"
"Mixed or Multiple"
"White"
"Other ethnic group"
Family
A family is a group of people who are either:
• married, civil partnered or cohabiting couple with or without children (the children do not need to belong to both members of the couple)
• a lone parent with children
• a married, civil partnered or cohabiting couple with grandchildren but where the parents of those grandchildren are not present
• a single or couple grandparent with grandchildren but where the parents of those grandchildren are not present
Family status
Denotes whether a person is considered to be in a family and the place a person holds within that family. Categories were:
• not in a family
• in a couple family (as a member of the couple or a dependent or non-dependent child of one or both members of the couple)
• in a lone parent family (as a parent or a dependent or non-dependent child of the parent)
• living in a communal establishment
Household
A household is defined as one person living alone or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address who share cooking facilities and a living room or dining area.
This includes all sheltered accommodation units in an establishment and all people living in caravans on any type of site that is their usual residence.
A household must contain at least one person whose place of usual residence is at the address. A group of short-term residents living together is not classified as a household, and neither is a group of people at an address where only visitors are staying.
Household size
The number of people in the household. Visitors staying at an address do not count to that household’s size.
Living arrangements
This classification combines responses to the Census question on marital and civil partnership status with information about whether or not a person is living in a couple. This topic is only applicable to people in households.
Living arrangements differs from marital and civil partnership status because cohabiting takes priority over other categories. For example, if a person is divorced and cohabiting, then in results for living arrangements they are classified as cohabiting.
UK armed forces veteran
People who have previously served in the UK armed forces. This includes those who have served for at least one day in HM’s Armed Forces, either regular or reserves, or Merchant Mariners who have seen duty on legally defined military operations. It does not include those who have left and since re-entered the regular or reserve UK armed forces, those who have only served in foreign armed forces, or those who have served in the UK armed forces and are currently living outside of England and Wales.
Usual resident
A usual resident is anyone who on Census Day, 21 March 2021, was in the UK and had stayed or intended to stay in the UK for a period of 12 months or more, or had a permanent UK address and was outside the UK and intended to be outside the UK for less than 12 months.
