DHDECPOS: Economic position of household head
+--------------------+---------------------+----------+ | Economic position | Resident status | Total | | of household head +----------+----------+ | | |Residents | Visitors | | +--------------------+----------+----------+----------+ | 1 Full-time | 90668 | 436 | 91104 | | employee | 42.3% | 31.3% | 42.2% | | | | | | | 2 Part-time | 8664 | 40 | 8704 | | employee | 4.0% | 2.9% | 4.0% | | | | | | | 3 Self-employed - | 6752 | 48 | 6800 | | with employees | 3.2% | 3.5% | 3.2% | | | | | | | 4 Self-employed - | 13108 | 54 | 13162 | | without employees | 6.1% | 3.9% | 6.1% | | | | | | | 5 On a Government | 944 | 10 | 954 | | scheme | .4% | .7% | .4% | | | | | | | 6 Unemployed | 11864 | 59 | 11923 | | | 5.5% | 4.2% | 5.5% | | | | | | | 7 Student | 1252 | 479 | 1731 | | | .6% | 34.4% | .8% | | | | | | | 8 Permanently sick | 10022 | 26 | 10048 | | | 4.7% | 1.9% | 4.7% | | | | | | | 9 Retired | 55783 | 187 | 55970 | | | 26.0% | 13.4% | 25.9% | | | | | | |10 Other inactive | 15291 | 52 | 15343 | | | 7.1% | 3.7% | 7.1% | | | | | | | Total | 214348 | 1391 | 215739 | | | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | +--------------------+----------+----------+----------+
The head of household is usually taken to be the first person entered on the Census form, provided they are a) 16 years or older and b) usually resident. Omits households with 12+ persons and households headed by an under-16 year old.
DHDECPOS is derived from ECHEAD, which gives a value of 0 to all non-household heads or 'heads' aged under 16, and gives to heads of household aged 16 or above a value which is equivalent to the value of that person's primary economic position. DHDECPOS selects the highest value of ECHEAD across each household, which will correspond to the household head's primary economic position.
DHDECPOS
1 Employee full-time 2 Employee part-time 3 Self-employed with employees 4 Self-employed without employees 5 On a Government scheme 6 Unemployed 7 Student 8 Permanently sick 9 Retired 10 Other inactive
ECHEAD derives the primary economic position of household heads. It is derived from HEAD and ECONPRIM.
CODE MEANING
0 Not the household head
1-10 Economic position of household head HEAD (1), ECONPRIM (1-10)
HEAD is an indicator of whether a person is the head of household, and is derived from RELAT and AGE. In Census terms, the head of household is regarded as the person entered in the first column of the form, provided that person was: (i) aged 16 years or over; and (ii) usually resident at the address of enumeration. However, in the case of these 22 households no resident aged 16+ was enumerated and so by default an under-16 year old has been defined as household head. For the purpose of this derived variable, AGE is used to filter out the 13 heads of household in the Household SAR who are aged 15 or under and they are treated as missing values.
CODE MEANING
0 Not the head of household RELAT (1-16)
1 Head of the household RELAT (0), AGE (16+)