{
  "status": "reference_only_not_a_joint_parenthood_distribution",
  "title": "Ipsos Royal Foundation Annual Perceptions 2025: children and parental responsibility",
  "publisher": "Ipsos UK",
  "geography": "United Kingdom",
  "population": "UK adults aged 16+ in the general population online survey",
  "weightedBase": 4672,
  "unweightedBase": 4672,
  "fieldwork": "30 April to 13 May 2025 in article; 30 April to 15 May 2025 on table headers",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/95-public-believe-early-childhood-crucial-shaping-persons-future-yet-many-parents-struggle-modern",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-01/j25-023254-tabs-draft-IntUse-gp-wtd-v9.tab_.pdf",
  "sha256": "847fcaa6f17e40560cf4d3a0ac8d233ae7a45851541b90d6f644c4f2c7daf4fd",
  "sourceBytes": 37970632,
  "tables": {
    "QD6": {
      "tableRef": "Table 636, PDF page 172",
      "question": "How many children aged 17 or under do you live with, if any, for whom you have parental responsibility? Please include any children who live with you on either a permanent or temporary basis.",
      "columns": ["All", "Male", "Female", "16-34", "35-54", "55+", "16-24", "25-34", "35-44", "45-54", "55-64", "65-74", "75+"],
      "weightedBase": [4672, 2278, 2390, 1373, 1487, 1813, 607, 766, 751, 736, 736, 727, 349],
      "unweightedBase": [4672, 2268, 2390, 1372, 1470, 1830, 611, 761, 733, 737, 745, 732, 353],
      "weightedCounts": {
        "one": [672, 340, 333, 266, 338, 68, 91, 176, 178, 160, 53, 10, 5],
        "two": [626, 342, 284, 258, 347, 21, 46, 212, 216, 131, 15, 6, 0],
        "three": [126, 50, 76, 45, 79, 1, 11, 35, 58, 21, 0, 1, 0],
        "fourPlus": [21, 10, 11, 4, 16, 1, 1, 3, 13, 4, 1, 0, 0],
        "any": [1446, 742, 703, 574, 781, 92, 149, 425, 465, 316, 69, 18, 5],
        "none": [3226, 1536, 1687, 799, 706, 1721, 459, 341, 286, 420, 667, 710, 344]
      }
    },
    "QD9": {
      "tableRef": "Table 651, PDF page 175",
      "question": "Do you have any children aged 17 or under who are not currently living with you?",
      "weightedCounts": {"yes": 489, "no": 4164, "preferNotToSay": 19},
      "unweightedCounts": {"yes": 468, "no": 4182, "preferNotToSay": 22}
    },
    "QD10": {
      "tableRef": "Table 656, PDF page 176",
      "question": "And do you have any children aged 18 or over? Please include any children who live with you or who live elsewhere.",
      "weightedCounts": {"liveWithMe": 791, "liveElsewhere": 1339, "no": 2663, "preferNotToSay": 31, "netYes": 1977},
      "note": "Multiple response question: live-with-me and live-elsewhere overlap. Do not add them."
    }
  },
  "limitations": [
    "Published sex and age columns are separate marginals, not jointly conditioned sex-by-age rows.",
    "The youngest age band is 16-24, so it cannot establish an exact 18-24 adult rate.",
    "QD6 measures parental responsibility for under-18s living permanently or temporarily with the respondent. It is not all children ever had and not precisely the Census dependent-child definition.",
    "Adopted children are not excluded by QD6 wording, but adoption is not explicitly identified in the published question. Coverage cannot be certified separately.",
    "QD9 and QD10 measure children living elsewhere, but their intersection with QD6 is not available in these demographic tables. Do not derive all-age no-children shares by adding or multiplying their marginals.",
    "Rounded weighted counts may not add exactly. Preserve published counts rather than redistributing rounding or nonresponse.",
    "No number of different co-parents is measured.",
    "This reference does not justify applying the old fixed 43% no-children multiplier."
  ]
}