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One-person households in India [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2015 Objective: The objectives of this article are: 1) to estimate the prevalence of one-person households in India; 2) to examine the demographic, social and economic characteristics of these households, and 3) to analyse the determinants of one-person ...
Premchand Dommaraju
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Emerging, transitory or residual? One-person households in Viet Nam [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2015 Background: The rise of one-person households in Viet Nam remains poorly documented, in spite of its significant growth since the 1990s and its relevance to the understanding of social and demographic change.
Christophe Guilmoto, Myriam de Loenzien
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Patterns of Energy Consumption in Polish One-Person Households [PDF]
Energies, 2020 Poland belongs to a group of countries with the highest share of expenditure on energy carriers in total household expenditure among the EU-28 countries. This fact adversely affects the quality of life of Polish citizens.
Marlena Piekut
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The Segmentation of Polish One-Person Households Due to Consumption [PDF]
Sustainability, 2018 The scientific objective of the study was to identify consumption patterns in one-person households, living independently. The households’ clusters were emerged using Ward’s grouping method. It can be concluded that distinguishing the consumption patterns for one-person households is possible on the basis of diversifying both level and structure of ...
Marlena Piekut
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Gender differences in routine housework among one-person households: A cross-national analysis [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Housework has long been associated with gender roles, with women traditionally burdened as the primary caregivers in many societies. However, most studies focus on the general population or on couples. This study explores the often overlooked
Joan Garcia-Roman
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Living Alone: One-person households in Asia
Demographic Research, 2015 Background: The one-person household (OPH) is the fastest-growing type of household in many regions of the world, but no systematic work on it has been done outside of Europe and North America.
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Adam Ka-Lok Cheung
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Living in single person households and the risk of isolation in later life [PDF]
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2009 Data from the International Social Survey Programme (2001) was used to analyse the social networks of older people and whether living in single person households increased the risk of isolation. When comparing respondents with one or more adult children,
Michael Hill, Laura Banks, Philip Haynes
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Assessing the determinants of healthcare expenditures in single-person households
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2018 Background The study documents a direct relationship between individuals’ health and patterns of healthcare expenditure by isolating single-person households and creating a new reference group in which household healthcare expenditure is based on one ...
Aviad Tur-Sinai +2 more
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Needs to Change Behaviour in Households Producing Lots of Food Waste [PDF]
International Journal of Food Studies, 2023 The purpose of this research was to investigate avoidable food waste among households of students studying in higher education in Sein¨ajoki. The focus was to quantify the avoidable food waste in different-sized households.
Margit Narva +2 more
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Spatial Autocorrelation of a Demographic Phenomenon: a Case of One-Family Households and One-Person Households [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2019 The paper aims to examine spatial distribution and to subsequently analyse a demographic phenomenon; share of one-family households and one-person households of all households by municipality in the Czech Republic (CR), because these two types of ...
Jaroslav Kraus
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