Kinship
Definition
This variable was created to give an estimate of children living in kinship care. This term refers to children and young people who are not living with their parents (as defined by the census questionnaire, not including step-parents) and who had one of the following relationships to another household member – Step child, Brother or sister, Step-brother or Step-sister, Grandchild or Other Relation.
Children living in kinship care with people they are not related to, such as family friends, are not included. This is because the way in which relationship information was captured in the census does not allow a distinction to be made between these children and those living with people they are not related to for other reasons, such as children in foster care.
Classification
Total number of categories 3
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| -5 | Not applicable (people living in communal establishments) |
| 1 | Kinship care child |
| 2 | All other people in households (not a kinship care child) |
Definition
This variable was created to give an estimate of children potentially living in kinship care. This term refers to children and young people who are not living with their parents (as defined by the census questionnaire, not including step-parents) and who reported one of the following relationships to the household reference person – Step child, Brother or sister, Step-brother or Step-sister, Grandchild, Other Relation or Unrelated (including foster children) in question H13.
Classification
Total number of categories 4
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Confirmed kinship care child |
| 2 | Potential kinship care child |
| 3 | All other people in households |
| X | No code required - comprises schoolchildren and full-time student living away from home during term time, all people in communal establishment. |
Source question or variables
AGE (Derived variable)
CHILDINDPUK11 (Derived variable)
SIZHUK11 (Derived variable)
RESIDENCE_TYPE (Primary variable)
TERMIND (Primary variable)
RELHRPPUK11 (Derived variable)
PERSNUM (Primary variable)
Known Quality Issues
This variable relies on relationship data, which include some known quality issues. The ‘Potential kinship care child’ category relates to children whose data were collected from large households (for which continuation forms were required). Since relationships were not captured completely in households with continuation forms, we are unable to make definite conclusions about whether these children are living in households with their parent(s) (as defined by the census questionnaire, not including step-parents).
Issues with the relationship data are summarized on the Data Quality Issues Page.