DFSTUDS: Number of students in family enumerated at term-time address (derived variable)

 

      
                                                                                
                      +--------------------+----------+----------+              
                      | No. of students    | Resident |    Total |              
                      | (termtime address) |  status  |          |              
                      |                    +----------+          |              
                      |                    |Residents |          |              
                      +--------------------+----------+----------+              
                      |0                   | 404352   | 404352   |              
                      |                    |   89.8%  |   89.8%  |              
                      |                    |          |          |              
                      |1                   |  40458   |  40458   |              
                      |                    |    9.0%  |    9.0%  |              
                      |                    |          |          |              
                      |2                   |   4920   |   4920   |              
                      |                    |    1.1%  |    1.1%  |              
                      |                    |          |          |              
                      |3                   |    349   |    349   |              
                      |                    |     .1%  |     .1%  |              
                      |                    |          |          |              
                      |4                   |     35   |     35   |              
                      |                    |     .0%  |     .0%  |              
                      |                    |          |          |              
                      |   Total            | 450114   | 450114   |              
                      |                    |  100.0%  |  100.0%  |              
                      +--------------------+----------+----------+              
                                                                                
          This refers to the number of students in a family enumerated at       
          their termtime address.  Omits households with 12+ persons
          and persons who are not in a family.

DFSTUDS is derived by summing the values of STUDENTS across each family. The values of this variable range from 0 to 11. Families within households of twelve or more persons are not included, as there are no individual records for such households. The variable does not apply to 'no-family' persons - that is, people who are defined as not part of a family.

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.