This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for Household composition by accommodation type by household size in Scotland.
Household composition
The life stage a person is in based on their age and dependent children.
Household composition classifies households according to the relationship between the household members. Households consisting of one family and no other usual residents are classified according to the type of family (married, civil partnership or cohabiting couple family, or lone parent family) and the number of dependent children. Other households are classified by the number of people, the number of dependent children, or whether the household consists only of students or only of people aged 66 (state pension age) and over.
Details of classification can be found here
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Accommodation type
The type of accommodation used or available for use by an individual household. Examples include:
- the whole of a terraced house
- a flat in a purpose-built block of flats
- a temporary or mobile structure
This variable is derived from question on the household form:
Household question 7: What type of accommodation is this?
- A whole house or bungalow that is:
- detached
- semi-detached
- terraced (including end-terrace)
- A flat, maisonette, or apartment that is:
- in a tenement or purpose-built block of flats (including '4-in-a-block')
- part of a converted or shared house (including bed-sits)
- in a commercial building (for example, in an office building, hotel or over a shop)
- A mobile or temporary structure:
- a caravan or other mobile or temporary structure
Details of classification can be found here
The quality assurance report can be found here
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 share a living room or sitting room, or dining area
This includes:
all sheltered accommodation units in an establishment (irrespective of whether there are other communal facilities), and
all people living in caravans on any type of site that is their usual residence; this will include anyone who has no other usual residence elsewhere in the UK
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.
The quality assurance report can be found here