Households

Mr. Laws
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) single parent households with children under the age of 16 years and (b) single parent households there were in Yeovil constituency in each of the last 15 years; and what estimate he has made of the number of cohabiting couples living in Yeovil constituency in each year.

John Healey
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 5 July 2006:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your requests for the following figures for the Yeovil constituency in each of the last 15 years: the number of single parent households with children under the age of 16 years, the number of single-person households and the number of cohabiting couples. (82137)

Estimates of these figures are not produced on an annual basis for local areas. Available figures are from the censuses of 1991 and 2001. These are shown in the table below.

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|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                            |1991  |2001  |
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|1.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |Lone-parent households with dependent children aged under 16|1,035 |1,810 |
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|2.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |One-person households                                       |9,378 |12,023|
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|3.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |Cohabiting couple households                                |11,118|3,807 |
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|1 In 1991 responses to relationship questions were only processed for approximately 10 per cent. of the population. The figures in this table have been grossed up by a factor of 10.16 to account for this.Sources:1. 1991 Census Local Base Statistics Table 32 and 2001 Census data2. Table F in the Census 1991 New Parliamentary Constituency Monitor South West and Table KS20 in the Census 2001 Report for Parliamentary Constituencies3. 1991 and 2001 Census data|                                                            |      |      |
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