household
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|alt= Painting of a man feeding a baby, two women and another child|Familienidylle by Aimé Pez, 1839 A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.
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A household is a group of one or more people living together in the same dwelling, which can be a single family or other types of person groups. It matters because households serve as the basic unit of analysis in social, economic, and government studies, and they're important for understanding economics and inheritance.
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- Government definitions
- {{anchor|Economic theories}}Economic definition
- {{anchor|Social}}Social definitions
- {{anchor|Household models}}Models
- History
- {{anchor|Historical statistics on housing}}Housing statistics
- Housing conditions
- {{anchor|Historical housing conditions in Belgium}}Belgium
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Austria}}Austria
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Ireland}}Ireland
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Japan}}Japan
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Netherlands}}Netherlands
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Italy}}Italy
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Norway}}Norway
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Sweden}}Sweden
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Denmark}}Denmark
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Switzerland}}Switzerland
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in Spain}}Spain
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in West Germany}}West Germany
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in France}}France
- {{anchor|Postwar housing conditions in the United Kingdom}}United Kingdom
- {{anchor|Housing conditions in Canada and the United States of America}}U.S. and Canada
- See also
- References
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thumb|upright=1.2|alt= Painting of a man feeding a baby, two women and another child|Familienidylle by Aimé Pez, 1839 A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.
Household models include families, blended families, shared housing, group homes, boarding houses, houses of multiple occupancy (UK), and single room occupancy (US). In feudal societies, the royal household and medieval households of the wealthy included servants and other retainers.