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‘Household’ and ‘Family’ are synonyms for complex constructs which are highly relevant as indicators for description of the socio-economic situation of individuals and of social change. Unlike variables like gender and age, these constructs are not one-dimensional variables. Household and family each show a complex structure containing a lot of information which can be measured with several different indicators and on different levels of complexity.
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Bien, W., Quellenberg, H. (2003). How to Measure Household and Family. In: Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.H.P., Wolf, C. (eds) Advances in Cross-National Comparison. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9186-7_15
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