one-person household
collocation in Englishmeaningsofone-personandhousehold
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one-person
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌwʌnˈpɜː.sən/us/ˌwʌnˈpɝː.sən/
used to describe a performance or show of artistic works by just ...
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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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(Definition ofone-personandhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Of men who lived in aone-personhouseholdin 1993, three-in-four men stayed in that arrangement.
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No less than one third of the older people who lived alone in 1993 sustain aone-personhouseholdinto very old age.
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For instance, living longer does not imply an extension of good health and certainly not that one can manage aone-personhouseholdinto advanced old age.
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Many residents are identified as single with one-person households reaching 37%.
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It is likely that a higher proportion than now of older one-person households will be owner-occupiers.
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There are an increasing number of one-person households and elderly people living alone.
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The number of single people needing housing and the number of one-person households will continue to increase.
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Too many upper-end-of-market homes are being built at a time when there is considerable growth in one-person households.
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There is no information available on the number of units designed to accommodate one-person households.
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It will also provide an opportunity to examine water charges for one-person households.
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That could involve one-person households having to pay on only half the capital value of their homes, with households consisting of more than two people paying an extra 25 percent.
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But although the number of households will remain the same, the number of one-person households should increase by about 200,000, with a compensatory decrease among larger households.
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First, there has been an increase, in fact a doubling, of one-person households, typically elderly people living alone or young people on their own, often prior to marriage.
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As a result the number of households has been rising much faster than population and the average size of household has been falling, with a large increase in one-person households.
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Of the 4,870 households, 34% were one-person households, 15% were married couples with dependent children, and 11% were lone parents with dependent children.
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Among these, 31% were married couples with children, 20% were married couples without children, and 29% were one-person households.
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One-family households are more common (77% compared to 67%) and one-person households are less common (12% compared to 25%).
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It hosts 21,365 households. 14.8% were married couples living together, 16.4%were one-person households, 18.8% were co-habiting couples and 7.9% were lone parents.
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