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Starting and Ending One-Person Households: A Longitudinal Analysis

Journal of Family Studies, 2011
Statistics on one-person households in Australia are primarily based on cross-sectional data, in particular census data. While analyses based on points in time are important in detecting trends in living alone rate and factors and circumstances associated with living alone, this approach is likely to understate the extent to which people may experience
Lixia Qu
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Living Standards in One-Person Households of the Elderly Population [PDF]

Sustainability, 2020
The number of one-person households of the elderly continues to rise in developed countries. The study assesses the standard of living in this type of households. The aim of this study is to explore the standard of living of single older adults (60+) in Poland by focusing on the relationship between demographic and socio-economic factors as well as ...
Marlena Piekut
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The Pattern and Structure of One-Person Households in England and Wales and France

International Journal of Population Geography: IJPG, 1997
"This paper examines the increase of one-person households during the 1980s in England and Wales and France set within the broader context of household change in Europe as a whole....One-person households vary geographically by age, with younger one-person households found especially in larger urban areas; older one-person households have a more varied
R, Hall, P E, Ogden, C, Hill
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Gendered Preferences and One-Person Households

2011
The tenth chapter discusses a number of issues concerning gendered preferences. These include the embedded consumption characteristics of males and females arising from the roles they play in social and family contexts. This chapter also examines the rise of one-person households.
Jo M. Martins, Farhat Yusuf, David A. Swanson   +2 more
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Comparative Advantage in the Household: Should One Person Specialize in a Household’s Financial Matters?

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2021
This study examines if households experience utility gains by selecting one of its members to specialize in its financial management. Utilizing data that are collected from the Health and Retirement Study, a variable measuring households’ level of financial specialization (HFS) is first constructed. The HFS variable is examined for its association with
Blain Pearson, Thomas Korankye, Hossein Salehi   +2 more
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The one‐person household in Latin America: A brief note

Biodemography and Social Biology, 1991
PIP: Drawing from World Fertility Survey and UN Demographic Yearbook data, this short paper considers the prevalence and composition of 1-person households in selected countries of the world, with particular attention to Latin America and the United States.
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Growth and Change in One Person Households: Implications for the Housing Market

Urban Policy and Research, 2001
Abstract As a result of several demographic and social trends, the one person household accounts for approximately one quarter of all households in Australia and is expected to further expand to one‐third by 2021. After couple families, the single person living alone is the most numerous household form. The paper differentiates one person households by
Maryann Wulff
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[Terminal care for one-person household].

Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy, 2010
In addition to visitor medical-examination service, Mutsumi-cho clinic (Minami-ku, Yokohama-city) started a home care service in October 2008. The number of one-person elderly house-hold is 8,483 (about 10%) out of 84,399 house-hold in Minami-ku where 200,000 people reside. We report here our experience in the terminal care of one-person elderly person
Masahiko, Usui, Sachiko, Sano, Qun, Asahina   +2 more
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The One-Person Household: A Consequence of the Isolated Nuclear Family?

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1967
The number of people living alone is increasing much more rapidly than the total population of the United States. In the period since 1960, approximately one-third of all new households contain but one person. Data from the one-in-a-thousand sample of the 1960 Census of Population are analyzed to determine the demographic characteristics of the one ...
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