# Households living alone - cps

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/households-living-alone-cps/5075>\
**Category:** CPS\
**Created:** [January 20, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/households-living-alone-cps/5075 "2023-01-20T16:54:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ben\_King](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/ben_king/32/735_2.png) [@Ben\_King](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Ben_King)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/households-living-alone-cps/5075/1 "2023-01-20T16:54:38Z")

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Can anyone help me figure out how to isolate the number of households living alone? the GQTYPE field does not seem to differentiate how many people live in a household, and I can only find a FAMSIZE wouldn’t track size of nonfamily households. What field can help me isolate the number of householders living alone?

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**Author:** ![KariWilliams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@KariWilliams](https://forum.ipums.org/u/KariWilliams)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/households-living-alone-cps/5075/2 "2023-01-20T23:02:20Z")

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The technical variable [NUMPREC](https://cps.ipums.org/cps-action/variables/numprec#description_section) reports the number of person records in a given household. NUMPREC values of 1 will identify persons who live alone.