Description

This variable indicates the number of families within each unit. A "family" is any group of persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage. An unrelated individual is considered a separate family. Thus, a household consisting of a widow and her servant contains two families; a household consisting of a large, multiple-generation extended family with no boarders, lodgers, or servants counts as a single family. 

Universe

• United States 1980: Private, occupied dwellings

Availability

• United States: 1980

Integrated variables

• None