Collocations withhousehold
These are words often used in combination withhousehold.
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average household
The ratio of household income to poverty level was almost four (that is, the average household earned four times the federal poverty level).
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common household
On the payment card, amounts could be compared to different common household consumer items of the same value.
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farming household
The drawback though is that farmers have to purchase seeds every season, which can be a constraint for farming household with limited cash.
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female household
One aspect of female household succession was the occasional adoption of a son-inlaw as the official heir for the sake of military service.
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female-headed household
Nearly two out of three respondents (63%) reported living in a female-headed household.
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higher-income household
Following these averting actions, a cross-section study of households might show that higher-income households are not more willing to pay for pollution abatement.
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household appliance
An experimental situation was devised in which a subject was telephoned in order to arrange the repair of a household appliance.
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household bleach
Households were given dilute household bleach (sodium hypochlorite) in individual 10-ml bottles.
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household budget
The application of household budget surveys was extended to other social categories in the population, in particular to workers and employees.
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household chemicals
I was told of a firm which made household chemicals having an environmental audit.
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household chores
For giving help, few seniors assisted someone else during baby-sitting (12.4%), but the majority helped with household chores (74.5%).
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household cleaners
Again, some children are poisoned not by medicines but by things like household cleaners, turpentine, and so on.
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household cleaning
Around half the men and women experienced difficulty with household cleaning and cooking meals, and over 60 per cent reported problems in washing\\ironing and sewing.
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household consumption
The survey collects information on quantity consumed and value of household consumption for a wide variety of consumer goods and services.
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household duties
Men worked longer hours while women were responsible for household duties.
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household formation
This article therefore identifies the need for further research, qualitative and quantitative, on the relationship between women's employment patterns and the dynamics of household formation.
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household furnishings
Supplies of utility furniture and household furnishings are in sufficient to allow of the issue of units and dockets until applicants can show reasonable prospects of getting early accommodation.
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household goods
In longer periods of poverty past savings are depleted, household goods deteriorate and cannot be replaced, and debts accrue and become unsustainable.
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household help
This leaves aside clerical and technical staff and also the household help.
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household income
The ratio of household income to poverty level was almost four (that is, the average household earned four times the federal poverty level).
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household item
A future potential market will undoubtedly be the general consumer where robots may well become another household item.
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household linen
That did not allow for the renewal of household linen, clothes or shoes.
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household object
It was therefore decided to include a household object in the background of the illustration to give a sense of scale.
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household pest
This beetle can be a serious household pest and a pest in natural history museums, where it can damage biological specimens.
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household pet
Restraint is admitted, but that applies to every household pet, be it dog, cat or other animal.
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household sector
This in turn translates to a high growth in demand for secondary resins as the household sector uses the largest proportion of secondary resin.
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household task
These authors noted that changing net curtains was a very important household task for older women.
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household utensils
They made baskets, mats, agricultural implements, household utensils and so on from raw materials collected from the forests, and sold them to the other communities.
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household waste
They are now using a great deal of household waste for recycling and heat regeneration.
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household wealth
Table 3 presents the data on the share of household wealth owned by wives.
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imperial household
I was brought up in what might be thought of as an imperial household.
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individual household
It soon becomes clear that any attempt to use normative models to describe the individual household is ideologically charged.
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joint household
She also discovered that the final distribution of inheritance and the breakup of the joint household appear to have been closely connected.
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low-income household
For example, if a case subject is female, 45 years old, white, and from a low-income household, a control subject would be selected with basically the same characteristics.
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lower-income household
In addition, lower-income households would not benefit much from such an exemption, as spending on essentials constitutes a small proportion of lower-income household expenditures.
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median household
This rather weak economic base is reflected in the low median household income, which stood at $21,406 in 1989.
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middle-class household
Members of the working class were not only incorporated into the body of the middle-class household, but they were also crucial to its workings.
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one-person household
Of men who lived in a one-person household in 1993, three-in-four men stayed in that arrangement.
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ordinary household
In an ordinary household, one has a duty to keep in some balance one's outgoings and incomings.
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per cent of household
Income from personal and occupational pensions also rose, from 2 per cent of household net income pre-onset, to 7 per cent post-onset.
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poor household
Except in very poor households, parents did not expect unmarried working children to contribute to the household income.
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representative household
This c 1 can be alternatively interpreted as the (minimum) offer price for a representative household, for avoiding illness.
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royal household
Formally, the cause of divorce appeared to be the internal competition within the polygamous royal household over the favours of the sultan.
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selected household
If the selected household contained more than one eligible respondent, the respondent who would have his or her birthday next was selected.
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single-parent household
Most missing data was due to single-parent household.
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total household
There are no aggregated country-level data on the proportion of each farmer type in the total household population.
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two-parent households
During the period 1868-1871, however, just as many children came from two-parent households with 2-4 children.
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typical household
The typical household had 4.7 children ever born and in the average household year 2.4 were minors under the age of 18.
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unpaid household labour
We first calculated the total amount of time actually spent in unpaid household labour by all the people in a person's household combined.
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wealthy household
Suppose we observe a wealthy household whose occupational choice is an entrepreneur.
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working-class household
The standard of living of the average working-class household today is not going up.
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