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Helgi's Point - Share of one-person households


Language: Czech / English
Provider: 2013
Pages: 1
Among the most striking features of family household composition is the progressive decline in the average size of households and the rapid rise in one-person households. In the United States, for example, single-person households as a share of total households rose from 13% in 1960 to 28% in 2011, and the number of lone parent (primarily single-mother) households increased from 1.5 million in 1950 to 9.5 million in 2000. In Japan, the share of one-person households rose sharply from 19.8% in 1980 to 29.5% in 2005. But, it is Scandinavians who seem most lonely with one-person household representing nearly every second family in Sweden, for instance. In the Czech Republic, nearly a third of total households were formed by a one person only in 2011. Nearly half of that was formed by pensioners. Two thirds of one-person female households were formed by women older than 60 years, but most male one-person households is formed by men younger than 39 years old...
Society | Czechia | March 11, 2013
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