Household
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A Household is a set of people (household members) who share assets and live communally in a home.
- Context:
- It can (typically) have a Household Size (e.g. a household of four, a household of one, ...).
- It can (typically) live in a single unshared Dwelling Residence.
- It can (typically) have a Household Expense.
- It can (typically) have a Household Income (and belong to a household income class).
- It can (typically) have a Household Wealth (assets minus debt).
- It can range from being a Lower-Class Household, to being a Middle-Class Household, to being an Upper-Class Household.
- It can range from being a Low-Income Household, to being a Median Income Household, to being a High-Income Household.
- It can range from being a Financially Fragile Household to being a Financially Secure Household.
- It can range from being a Homeowning Household to being a Renting Household/Rental Household.
- It can range from being a Working Household to being a Capitalist Household.
- It can range from being a Top 1 Percent Household to being a Other 99 Percent Household.
- It can range from being an Urban Household to being a Suburban Household to being a Rural Household.
- …
- Example(s):
- a Tribal Dwelling, such as a Yanomami Household.
- an Indian Extended Family Household.
- an American Household.
- an Middle-Class Household.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Homeless Individual.
- a Yanomami Tribe in a Yanomami Shabono[1].
- an Apartment Building.
- a City.
- See: Person Set.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household
- The household is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonymous with family”.[1]
The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models. The term refers to all individuals who live in the same dwelling.
In economics, a household is a person or a group of people living in the same residence.
- The household is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonymous with family”.[1]