Definition
HHWELFAREY indicates whether any member of the household has income from some type of social welfare program or pension.
The information in HHWELFAREY is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.