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11 5_ -Census Bureau • •; Current Population Survey (CPS) Definitions and Explanations Introduction The definitions and explanations found in reports in the Current Population Reports by the Census Bureau are largely drawn from various technical and procedural materials used in the collection of data in the Current Population Survey.The concepts defined below generally refer to current definitions.For reports based on earlier surveys, before 1990,the user should consult the especially those published continue to evolve,definitions may also alter to accommodate these 'As and surveys to significant changes in the concepts Y changes- We will alert users them significant to cant changes interpret presented in the reports released on the Internet to enable accurately terpret the data for historical comparisons. Household. A household consists of all the people who occupy a housing unit.A house,an apartment ( or other group of rooms,or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is,when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall. A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated people,if any, such as lodgers, foster children,wards,or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing unit such as partners or roomers,is also counted as a household. The count of households excludes group quarters. There are two major categories of households, "family"and "nonfamily". (See definitions of Family household and Nonfamily household). Units in structure. In the determination of the number of units in a structure,all housing units, both occupied and vacant, were counted. The statistics are presented in terms of the number of occupied housing units in structures of specified size, not in terms of the number of residential structures. - rr C Page 1 oft - t;