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GCSE Sociology · key term
One person living alone, or a group of people living at the same address and sharing facilities; members need not be related.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
One person living alone, or a group of people living at the same address and sharing facilities. Household members are not necessarily relatives.
Revise: Family FormsA household, by contrast, is one person living alone or a group living at the same address and sharing facilities. Students sharing a house form a household, but they are not necessarily a family.
Identify family forms by their defining relationships, not simply by the number of people in the household.
Distinguish a family from a household. Living at the same address does not necessarily make people relatives.
Distinguish family relationships from shared accommodation: people can share a household without being a family.
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Component 1
One person living alone, or people living at the same address who share cooking facilities and a living room, sitting room or dining area, in the ONS definition.
Revise: Defining the FamilyA household concerns living arrangements rather than family relationships. In the Office for National Statistics (ONS) definition, it is one person living alone, or a group at the same address sharing cooking facilities and a living room, sitting room or dining area.
One person, or a group of people, sharing cooking facilities and a living room or dining area. Household members need not be related.
