Scotland's Census 2022 - MV102 - Household composition - households by ethnic group of household reference person

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for Household composition by ethnic group of household reference person 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

The quality assurance report can be found here

Ethnic group

Ethnic group classifies people according to their own perceived ethnic group and cultural background. Whilst the main ethnic group categories have not changed from the question asked in Census 2011, some of the detailed response options and write-in prompts for Scotland's Census 2022 were changed based on stakeholder engagement and subsequent question testing.

Details of classification can be found here