Households
and families
The annual
statistics on population by January 1st now also includes an
estimate of the number of families that can be described by family type.
For the
estimates Statistics Greenland uses the same concepts as Statistics Denmark.
Read more about the family concepts in www.stat.gl/BEE201901/m3
In brief, a
family consists of one or more persons from the same household, linked to each
other through pairings or kinship. A household may consist
of multiple
families, but a family can in reverse not have members from several households.
Illustration.
A household* consisting of 3 families
* A household
consists of all persons with identical address in the central register of
persons
As of January 1, 2020 there are 55,641 persons in 30,396 families in 22,054 households or 1.38 family per household on average. In addition, 440 persons are registered with an administrative address.