Households; size, position in the household, 1 January 1995-2013
Explanation of symbols
Table explanation
Key figures on the size and composition of households and persons by position in the household in the Netherlands, on 1 January.
Data available from 1995 until 2013.
Status of the figures:
All the figures in this table are final.
Changes as of 24 February 2015:
This table is discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore. This table will be replaced by 'Households; size, composition, position in the household, 1 January', see chapter 3.
Description topics
- Persons by household position
- Household
Private or institutional household.
Private household
One or more people sharing the same living space, who provide for their own everyday needs in a private, non-commercial way.
Institutional household
Household consisting of one or more people living in one accommodation whose housing and daily needs are provided professionally, e.g. persons in homes for the elderly, nursing homes and mental hospitals.
Households size
Number of people in a private household.
Household composition
The classification of private households on the basis of the relationships within the household.
Household position
Position someone has in a household in relation to the reference person of that household.
Reference person
Member of the household on whom the household positions of the other household members are based, and whose characteristics may also be characteristic for the household.
The reference person will be chosen as follows:
- The reference person in a heterosexual relationship is always the man.
- In homosexual and lesbian relationships, the reference person is the elder of the two.
- In a single-parent household the reference person is the parent.
- In an 'other household' the reference person is the eldest man. If men are absent in the household, the reference person is the eldest woman.- Total of the Netherlands
- Men
- Other member of household
- Someone in a private household who is not a partner in a couple, a parent in a single family household, or a child living at home, e.g. boarders, younger of two brothers constituting one household or foster children.
- Persons in institutional households
- The population in institutional households consists of persons whose accommodation and daily needs are provided for by a third party on a professional basis, e.g. persons in homes for the elderly, nursing homes and mental hospitals.
- Women
- Other member of household
- Someone in a private household who is not a partner in a couple, a parent in a single family household, or a child living at home, e.g. boarders, younger of two brothers constituting one household or foster children.
- Persons in institutional household
- The population in institutional households consists of persons whose accommodation and daily needs are provided for by a third party on a professional basis, e.g. persons in homes for the elderly, nursing homes and mental hospitals.
- Private households
- Private household
One or more people sharing the same living space, who provide for their own everyday needs in a private, non-commercial way.- By household size
- Households size
Number of people in a private household.- Total private households
- One-person households
- Private household consisting of one person.
- Multi-person households
- A private household consisting of two or more persons.
- Total multi-person households
- 2 persons
- 3 persons
- 4 persons
- 5 persons or more
- Average household size
- Average number of persons in a private household.