Household & Family
Households and family relations as social and administrative units
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Incomplete
3 bundles · 5 layers · 0 findings · 0 questions
composition Who forms the unit
householdUnit
the dwelling-sharing unit itself
membership
member ties, roles and tenure of belonging
kinship How members are related
familyRelation
registered and lived kinship ties
dependencyAndCare
dependants, caregiving and maintenance arrangements
residence Where the unit lives
domicile
declared and registered residence linkage to dwellings
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.PER.HH
- Domain
- SOC.PER.HH
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- householdfamilysoc.per.hh
- Also called
- H2
What it is Derived, awaiting review
This meta-model describes households as dwelling-sharing units and families as webs of registered and lived relations: membership, kinship, dependency and care, and the residence linkage that ties a household to a dwelling.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Households and family relations as social and administrative units
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- It is its own model because the household is simultaneously a social unit (who lives together), an administrative unit (registered relations, dependency) and a statistical unit (the census household), and these three readings must be kept coherent on one shared structure.
What robots and AI may and may not do Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Filled
Steward
The household members jointly own the unit's record; the civil registrar owns registered relations within it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.person - every member, relative, dependant and caregiver is a natural person referenced by identity, never copied
- world.buildingAndFacility - residence records point to dwellings governed by the built-environment model
- world.populationGroup - households feed statistical cohorts as counting units
imports
- schema.org - ALIGN: public typing for household and family concepts
requires
- vr.wm-per-005
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Derived, awaiting review
- household: a dwelling-sharing unit; key attributes: identifier, formation date, type (single, family, collective), status
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- householdFormed: a new household unit came into existence
- memberJoined: a person entered a household
- memberLeft: a person left a household
- relationRegistered: a family relation (marriage, partnership, adoption, parentage) was registered
- relationDissolved: a registered relation was dissolved or annulled
- residenceChanged: the household's registered or actual residence changed
- householdDissolved: the unit ceased to exist
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- householdSelfManagement: the members' joint mandate to maintain their own unit record
- registeredRelationExtract: registrar-certified extracts of registered relations for administrative use
- censusAggregation: release of household data to the statistics office in anonymized, aggregated form only
- administrativeHouseholdView: registered relations, roles and residence for administrative consumers; omits informal care detail
- censusUnitView: household size, type and composition shape for statistics; contains no identities
- memberSelfView: a member's own view of the unit and every relation concerning them
Context of use required Filled
- Access to any household or kinship data is granted by the respective owner through the catalogue's S1/S2 ownership and access models, with audit via S4.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-h2-household-and-family/spec.yaml, models/docs/people-groups/H2-household-and-family.md