Children count
Counts the number of children an individual has, counting up to four. Each child's presence may be specifically stated in records or inferred from household relationship data.
Coverage
For how many people does Faraday have a value for this attribute? Depending on the type of attribute, Faraday could know a value for people at the individual level, or infer it based on values it knows for each person's address. Finally, in some cases, we can estimate a value for a person based on what we know about other people in their area.
Time series
Faraday collects observations for this attribute over time. This chart shows how many observations we collected at different times.
Data distribution
Technical details
These technical details describe how Faraday represents this attribute internally.
| Property | Value | API value |
|---|---|---|
| API name | children_ | |
| Category | Life event | fig/life_event |
| Unit | Count | count |
| Type | Text | string |
| Statistical type | Nominal | nominal |
| Allowed values | Not applicable | null |
| Deprecation | Not deprecated | false |
| Derivations | Self-reported | ["self-reported"] |
| Directionality | Higher number means a greater count. | |
Interpretation table
For enumerable attributes, a mapping from values to their interpretations. The key type matches the attribute's data type, and the value is always a string interpretation.
| Value | Interpretation |
|---|---|
Inferred | The number of children was inferred from other available information, such as relationships within the household. |
Specific | The number of children was explicitly stated in the source record. |