Household maintainer

Part A - Short definition:

Not applicable

Part B - Detailed definition:

Refers to whether or not a person residing in the household is responsible for paying the rent, or the mortgage, or the taxes, or the electricity or other services or utilities. Where a number of people may contribute to the payments, more than one person in the household may be identified as a household maintainer. If no person in the household is identified as making such payments, the reference person is identified by default.

Reported in:

2011

Reported for:

Private households

Question number(s):

Derived variable: Question E1

Responses:

Not applicable

Remarks:

Up to five household maintainers can be identified.

In order for a person identified as being responsible for the household payments to be considered as the household maintainer, that person must be 15 years of age or older and be related to Person 1 in terms other than as an employee (or as an employee's census family).