Prominent household profession

prominent_household_professionDemographyText

Identifies the most commonly reported occupation among the household's known adult earners. Known or imputed for 48.4 million individuals — 19.4% of Faraday's identity graph.

At a glance

Coverage today
19.4%
Typical coverage
19.5%
Individuals with a value
48.4M
Share in largest category
33.3%
Most values come
from the person
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 48,437,865

Share of individuals in each category. 14 categories, with 33.3% in the largest.

Professional/Technical
33.3%
Retired
16.7%
Management
14.5%
Tradesman/Machine Oper / Laborer
8.9%
Clerical/Service Worker
6.4%
Homemaker
6.0%
Sales/Marketing
5.9%
Other
2.8%
Military Retired
2.0%
Student
1.8%
Teacher Educator
0.7%
Health Care
0.6%
Physician/Dentist
0.1%
Farmer
0.0%
Distinct categories
14
Share in largest category
33.3%
Share in top 3 categories
64.6%

Category shares over time

Professional/Technical33.4% (largest)

The 5 largest categories, each followed across 12 collections. Estimated from a 1% sample of individuals.

Mar 2024Nov 2024Apr 2025Oct 2025Dec 2025May 2026
Professional/TechnicalRetiredManagementTradesman/Machine Oper / LaborerClerical/Service Worker

Coverage

Latest collection: 229,689,060 individuals

Coverage by state

Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

19.4% today

Share of individuals holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.

Jul 23Jun 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26

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 19.4% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 36% 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.

May 1, 2026
latest collection
5 months 2 days
since the latest collection
quarterly
new collection cadence
Mar 24Nov 24Apr 25Oct 25Dec 25Mar 26

Change between collections

The share of individuals whose category changed.

0.0%

of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 354.6× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

13 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-012026-09-10266,506,942c5492806…
2026-03-012026-07-01264,096,9771181277b…
2026-02-012026-07-02264,777,400af53c569…
2025-12-012026-08-11268,508,09184d6a1c5…
2025-11-012026-08-11268,299,874a071c538…

Technical details

API name
prominent_household_profession
Category
fig/demography
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Self-reported
— the attribute is self-reported by the person.
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "prominent_household_profession": "Professional/Technical"
  }
}