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Family

Term · Economic statistics · MLC-T-ECS-000691

Group of two or more people residing together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption.

Note: Families are classified either as married-couple families or as families maintained by women or men without spouses. A family maintained by a woman or a man is one in which the householder is either single, widowed, divorced, or married with spouse absent.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ECS-000691
FieldEconomic statistics
ReferencesBLS Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-000691",
  "term": "Family",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "Group of two or more people residing together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption.\n\nNote: Families are classified either as married-couple families or as families maintained by women or men without spouses. A family maintained by a woman or a man is one in which the householder is either single, widowed, divorced, or married with spouse absent.",
  "references": [
    "BLS Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/family/"
}

Record 679 of 2,141 in Economic statistics terminology (MLC-0116). Request the full dataset.