page_title: Household
hierarchical_section_title: Household
caption_attribution_description: German&#58; Familienidyllelabel QS:Lde,"Familienidylle"
context_page_description: A household consists of one or more people who live in the same dwelling and share meals. It may also consist of a single family or another group of people. A dwelling is considered to contain multiple households if meals or living spaces are not shared. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.
  Household models include families, blended families, shared housing, group homes, boarding houses, houses of multiple occupancy, and single room occupancy. In feudal societies, the Royal Household and medieval households of the wealthy included servants and other retainers.
context_section_description: A household consists of one or more people who live in the same dwelling and share meals. It may also consist of a single family or another group of people. A dwelling is considered to contain multiple households if meals or living spaces are not shared. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is important to economics and inheritance.
  Household models include families, blended families, shared housing, group homes, boarding houses, houses of multiple occupancy (UK), and single room occupancy (US). In feudal societies, the Royal Household and medieval households of the wealthy included  servants and other retainers.
caption: Familienidylle by Aimé Pez, 1839
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