Family

https://publicschema.org/Family

candidate

A kinship network of persons connected by blood, marriage, or adoption. A family is defined by relational ties, not by co-residence or shared budget: members may live across multiple households or geographic areas. Kinship links between members are represented as Relationship records between Person instances. Systems that use "family" to mean the co-residential unit should set group_type: family on their Household record for interoperability.

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Supertypes

Group

Properties

Property Type Definition
Group type from Group string (group-type)
An interoperability classifier for the category of group record being exchanged or exported. In native PublicSchema modeling, the concrete Group subtype is the authoritative signal when known.
Formation date from Group date The date on which this group was formed or registered.
Member count from Group integer The total number of members in this household or group.
Memberships from Group concept:GroupMembership
The membership links connecting persons to this group, each carrying role and lifecycle dates.
Name from Party string
The full display name of the record. Depending on the concept, this is a person's or group's name, or the title of a program, instrument, scoring rule, or software product.
Identifiers from Party concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Identity documents from Party concept:IdentityDocument
Identity documents held by this party, such as passports, national identity cards, civil registration certificates, and program-issued beneficiary cards.

Evidence

Present in 5 of 6 mapped delivery systems.

No OpenCRVS equivalent. OpenIMIS uses 'family' where other systems use 'household'. Family currently carries no local properties: kinship, marriage, and adoption ties named in the definition are represented via Relationship records between Person instances rather than as dedicated properties on Family. The group_type: family code on Household provides an interoperability bridge for systems that model co-residential units under the "family" label.

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