Some households therefore, contain more than one family. Due to processing limitations a maximum of three families can be coded to a household. This variable is based on the number of hours worked in all jobs held by employed people during the week before census night. Household A household is a group of people, who usually reside in the same private dwelling. Income People aged 15 years or more are asked to state their usual gross weekly income, which is the income before tax, superannuation, health insurance, or other deductions are made.
Household income is the sum of the personal incomes of each usual resident present in the dwelling.
The labour force comprises employed and unemployed people. A person who usually lives alone in a private dwelling. The SOS category classification uses population counts from the Census to define CDs as either urban or rural. The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed persons expressed as a percentage of the labour force. This geographical structure is defined by the 1996 Census edition of the Australian Standard Geographical Classification.