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Overcrowding - number of households with 1 or more rooms too few (3171) Metric type
- Help text
- This metric provides a measure of whether a household's accommodation is overcrowded or under occupied. It is calculated by summing households with one room too few and households with two or more rooms too few.
The ages of the household members and their relationships to each other are used to derive the number of rooms/bedrooms they require, based on a standard formula. The number of rooms/bedrooms required is subtracted from the number of rooms/bedrooms in the household's accommodation to obtain the occupancy rating. An occupancy rating of -1 implies that a household has one fewer room/bedroom than required, whereas +1 implies that they have one more room/bedroom than the standard requirement.
Statistical Disclosure Control: In order to protect against disclosure of personal information from the Census, there has been swapping of records in the Census database between different geographic areas, and so some counts will be affected. In the main, the greatest effects will be at the lowest geographies, since the record swapping is targeted towards those households with unusual characteristics in small areas.
- Modified
- 29 Aug 2023
- Data last updated
- 05 Jan 2023
- Short label
- Overcrowded households
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Households overcrowded
- Dataset
- Occupancy rating (rooms) (Census)
- Collection
- Census
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- is found in the following lists
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