Meaning of extended household | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A household with additional members compared to a nuclear family.
2. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of people living in different places but forming a close support network, obliged to follow lockdown rules as if they belonged to a single household.

Examples

“The low incidence of extended households in my data and the high proportion of high-caste residents precludes a meaningful test⟳ of this hypothesis here.”

“For example, a household consisting of a head, wife, son, and daughter is ordinarily classified as a nuclear household, while a household containing a father, mother, head, and sister is usually classified as an extended household, even though the two are biologically identical.”

“Under the five tier system in Scotland, people who live⟳ on their own⟳ or only with children under 18 can form⟳ an extended household with people from one other household. People in extended households are counted as one household, and so can continue⟳ to meet⟳ and socialise with each other despite general restrictions on households mixing, and can stay⟳ overnight in each other's homes.”

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