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Number of household maintainers

Part A - Plain language definition:

Number of persons in a household who pay the rent or mortgage, or the taxes, or the electricity bills, and so on, for the dwelling.

Part B - Detailed definition:

Refers to the number of persons of the same household who have been identified as household maintainers.

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