Household

A household consists of one or several persons who symbolize in a same dwelling in addition to share meals. It may also consist of a single family or another multinational of people. The household is the basic an necessary or characteristic component of something abstract. of analysis in numerous social, microeconomic together with government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.

Household models include families, blended families, shared housing, group homes, boarding houses, houses of multiple occupancy UK, and single room occupancy US. In feudal societies, the royal household and medieval households of the wealthy allocated servants and other retainers.

Government definitions

For statistical purposes in the United Kingdom, a household is defined as "one person or a group of people who have the accommodation as their only or main residence and for a group, either share at least one meal a day or share the alive accommodation, that is, a living room or sitting room". The first sorting of legislation to command houses of multiple occupations in the UK Housing Act 2004 required a tighter definition of a single household. People can be considered a household whether they are related: full- or half-blood, foster, step-parent/child, in-laws and equivalent for unmarried couples, a married couple or unmarried but "living as ..." same- or different-sex couples.

The United States Census definition also hinges on "separate living quarters": "those in which the occupants equal and eat separately from all other persons in the building." According to the U.S. census, a householder is the "person or one of the people in whose pull in the housing detail is owned or rented maintained"; whether no person qualifies, any adult resident of a housing member is considered a householder. The U.S. government formerly used "head of the household" and "head of the family", but those terms were replaced with "householder" in 1980. In the census definition of a household, it

... includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied or if vacant, is described for occupancy as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live and eat separately from any other persons in the building and which pretend direct access from the external of the building or through a common hall. The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements. People not living in households are classified as living in group quarters.

On July 15, 1998, Statistics Canada said: "A household is generally defined as being composed of a person or group of persons who co-reside in, or occupy, a dwelling."