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. Known or imputed for 34.5 million individuals — 13.8% of Faraday's identity graph.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 13.8%
- Typical coverage
- 13.9%
- Individuals with a value
- 34.5M
- Share in largest category
- 86.2%
- Most values come
- from the person
- Latest collection
- May 1, 2026
How the categories split
n = 249,684,220Share of individuals in each category. 5 categories, with 86.2% in the largest.
Median over time
0 count0 count → 0 count across 12 collections, shaded between P25 and P75. Estimated from a 1% sample of individuals.
What the delivered codes mean
2 codes
- 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.
Coverage
Latest collection: 229,689,060 individualsCoverage by state
Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
13.8% todayShare of individuals holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
How we arrive at a value
Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.
- On the person — 100%
- A named person, from a record about that person.
- From address — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From geography — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
Coverage, in context
Where 13.8% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 100% of individual-level attributes in the catalog
Freshness
How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of individuals in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.
Change between collections
The share of individuals whose category changed.
of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 25.5× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.
Contribution ledger
13 ingestions
1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 2026-09-10 | 266,506,942 | c5492806… |
| 2026-03-01 | 2026-07-01 | 264,096,977 | 1181277b… |
| 2026-02-01 | 2026-07-02 | 264,777,400 | af53c569… |
| 2025-12-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,508,091 | 84d6a1c5… |
| 2025-11-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,299,874 | a071c538… |
Technical details
- API name
- children_count
- Category
- fig/life_event
- Type · unit
- Text · count
- Statistical type
- nominal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- Self-reported
- — the attribute is self-reported by the person.
- Directionality
- Higher number means a greater count.
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"children_count": "0"
}
}