CORESIDENCE_GLAD: The Global Living Arrangements Database, 1960-2021

The Global Living Arrangements Database (GLAD), is a global resource designed to fill a critical gap in the availability of statistical information for examining patterns and changes in living arrangements by age, sex, marital status and educational attainment. Utilizing comprehensive census microdata from IPUMS International and the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), GLAD summarizes over 740 million individual records across 107 countries, covering the period from 1960 to 2021. This database has been constructed using an innovative algorithm that reconstructs kinship relationships among all household members, providing a robust and scalable methodology for studying living arrangements. GLAD is expected to be a valuable resource for both researchers and policymakers, supporting evidence-based decision-making in areas such as housing, social services, and healthcare, as well as offering insights into long-term transformations in family structures. The open-source R code used in this project is publicly available, promoting transparency and enabling the creation of new ego-centred typologies based in interfamily relationships  

The repository is composed of the following elements: a Rda file named CORESIDENCE_GLAD_2025.Rda in the form of a List. In R, a List object is a versatile data structure that can contain a collection of different data types, including vectors, matrices, data frames, other lists, spatial objects or even functions. It allows to store and organize heterogeneous data elements within a single object. The CORESIDENCE_GLAD_2025 R-list object is composed of six elements:

SINGLE AGES: a data frame where data is aggregated by single ages, marital status, educational attainment and living arrangement types. Source of the original data: IPUMS-I

AGE GROUPS IPUMS: a data frame where data is aggregated by five-year age groups, marital status, educational attainment and living arrangement types. Source of the original data: IPUMS-I.

AGE GROUPS LFS: a data frame where data is aggregated by five-year age groups, marital status, educational attainment and living arrangement types. Source of the original data: EU-LFS.

HARMONIZED: a data frame where data is aggregated by five-year age groups, marital status, educational attainment and living arrangement types. The categories of marital status and educational attainment have been harmonized between the two data sources. Source of the original data: IPUMS-I and EU-LFS

CODEBOOK: a data frame with the complete list of variables included, their names description and categories.

LABELS LAT: A R function to add the qualitative labels to Living Arrangement Types (LAT).

ATLAS LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: The url of the folder with leaflet of living arrangements for each sample included in GLAD.