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Current Population Survey (CPS) - <br /> Definitions and Explanations <br /> Introduction <br /> The definitions and explanations found in reports in the Current Population Reports series issued <br /> by the Census Bureau are largely drawn from various technical and procedural' materials used in <br /> the collection of data in the Current Population Survey. The concepts defined below generally <br /> refer to current definitions.For reports based on earlier surveys, especially those published <br /> before 1990,the user should consult the printed reports for those years.As reports and surveys <br /> continue to evolve,definitions may also alter to accommodate these changes. We will alert users <br /> to significant changes in the concepts presented in the reports re leased on the Internet to enable <br /> them to accurately interpret the data for historical comparisons. <br /> Household. <br /> A household consists of all the people who occupy a housing unit. A house,an apartment <br /> or other group of rooms,or a single room,is regarded as a housing unit when it is <br /> occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is,when the <br /> occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct <br /> access from the outside or through a common hall. <br /> A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated people,if any, <br /> such as lodgers, foster children,wards,or employees who share the housing unit. A <br /> person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing <br /> unit such as partners or roomers,is also counted as a household. The count of households <br /> excludes group quarters. There are two major categories of households, "family"and <br /> "nnfamily". (See definitions of Family household and Nonfamily household). <br /> Units in structure. <br /> In the determination of the number of units in a structure, all housing units, both occupied <br /> and vacant, were counted. The statistics are presented in terms of the number of occupied <br /> housing units in structures of specified size, not in terms of the number of residential <br /> structures. <br /> Page I of 2Fr C <br />