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- -,rt~,_ <br />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 eazlier 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 released 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 sepazate 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 aze two major categories of households, "family" and <br />"nonfamily". (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 1 of 2 EXHIBIT <br />