DHSTUDS: Number of students enumerated at term-time address in household (derived variable)

DHSTUDS is derived by summing the values of STUDENTS across each household. The values of this variable range from 0 to 11.

STUDENTS is an indicator of whether a person is a student enumerated at their term-time address, derived from TERMTIME and ECONPRIM.

CODE MEANING
0 Not a student enumerated at term-time address
1 Student enumerated at term-time address
TERMTIM (1), ECONPRIM (7)

 

The population base for this variable is not the resident population but the enumerated population, and therefore includes residents and visitors. Students were asked to give their parental home as their usual address. If they lived away from 'home' during term-time they would therefore be visitors at their term-time address. However, from a detailed analysis of student's resident status and term-time address it is clear that this instruction has not been applied in all cases. Consequently a decision was made to create a derived variable which reflected the household structure of students who were enumerated at their term-time address, rather than a derived variable based on resident status which in many cases would be describing the characteristics of a household at which the student was rarely present.