female-headed household
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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 ofhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Nearly two out of three respondents (63%) reported living in afemale-headedhousehold.
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The adverse effects of early working and insufficient food experienced in growing up in a female-headedhouseholdsuggest a failure to acquire skills and a resulting low level of productivity.
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Thefemale-headedhouseholdis still a significant feature on the household organization landscape.
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Female-headed households are defined as those self-declaring as female-headed plus those with no resident adult male over the age of 17. 12.
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Nevertheless, some of these female-headed households produced food, at least enough to meet their needs.
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Female-headed households benefit less from community forests, further aggravating the inequity in distribution of benefits.
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Older de jure female-headed households (all widows in this survey) without the benefit of remittances had the highest productivity.
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The predominance of non-agricultural occupations in the female-headed households, with the better employment opportunities implied, boosted their relative prosperity.
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Taking women's longer average life expectancy and the rising number of female-headed households into account, this could have profound implications for old-age poverty.
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Vanstone credits the fact that she does not defer to male authority to growing up in afemale-headedhouseholdand attending a school run by women.
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The truncation has implications for what we know about heights of boys from female-headed households.
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Recruiting officers did not record directly whether boys came from female-headed households or not.
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As was to be expected, children's contributions made up a larger proportion of family incomes in the female-headed households.
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In other words, a higher proportion of female-headed households were discontinued.
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The proportion of female-headed households increased from 17 to 24%.
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According to these documents, female-headed households were 17 per cent of all households in 1832 and 45 per cent of all households in 1838.
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The increase in female-headed households is due largely to higher divorce rates and higher rates of nevermarried women who have and raise children.
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Yet the fact remains that only about one in five female-headed households was able to earn wage income.
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Specifically, we seek to make a preliminary assessment of the significance of wage labour income for the survival of female-headed households.
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