This variable indicates the sex, either male or female, of lone parents present in the household on Census night.
Lone parents present in the household on Census night
| Code | Category |
|---|---|
1 | Male lone parent |
2 | Female lone parent |
@ | Not applicable |
V | Overseas visitor |
Number of categories: 4
Not applicable (@) category comprises:
The Census asks a number of questions for usual residents who were temporarily absent on Census night, these are known as persons temporarily absent (PTA) questions. The PTA questions below are used to derive this variable.
This variable is derived from responses to the Sex and Relationship in household questions on the Census form. In a small proportion of cases, responses to Persons temporarily absent questions are also used.
Sex is captured automatically from mark box responses on the form. If a form was received but there was no response, Sex is imputed. More information is available in the SEXP.
This variable is created from the binary sex variable (SEXP). Where a respondent has answered the sex question with ‘non-binary sex’ and provided a male or female response, the male or female response will be used to determine the binary sex variable. Otherwise, (SEXP) will be derived by a statistical process using random allocation.
This variable was first introduced in 2011.
No changes have been made in 2021.