Approximated social grade and Household Reference Persons Definitions
Office for National Statistics; National Records of Scotland; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency; UK Data Service.
Middle Super Output Areas and Intermediate Zones
Census Data Zones,Census Electoral Divisions,Census Intermediate Zones,Census Wards,Council Areas,Counties,Countries,Local Authorities,Local Government Districts,London Boroughs,Lower Super Output Areas,Merging Local Authorities,Merging Wards and Electoral Divisions,Metropolitan Districts,Middle Super Output Areas,Non-Metropolitan Districts,Output Areas,Regions,Small Areas,Super Output Areas,Unitary Authorities
Office for National Statistics; National Records of Scotland; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency; UK Data Service. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/census/aggregate-2011-2
Country level down to Output Areas and Small Areas
**Dataset population:** Household Reference Persons aged 16 to 64 in households **Approximated social grade of HRP** Social Grade is the socio-economic classification used by the Market Research and Marketing Industries, most often in the analysis of spending habits and consumer attitudes. Although it is not possible to allocate Social Grade precisely from information collected by the 2011 Census, the [Market Research Society](https://www.mrs.org.uk/) has developed a method for using Census information to provide a good approximation of Social Grade. The concept of a Household Reference Person (HRP) was introduced in the 2001 Census (in common with other government surveys in 2001/2) to replace the traditional concept of the 'head of the household'. HRPs provide an individual person within a household to act as a reference point for producing further derived statistics and for characterising a whole household according to characteristics of the chosen reference person.
Approximated social grade (Household Reference Persons) 2011
Codes as headers, descriptions in separate file. UK coverage where available