The Structure of Households in Scandinavia Since 1950

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Berge, Erling; Bugge, Liv Susanne
Conference:	Workshop on Modelling of Household Formation and Dissolution
Location:	Voorburg, The Netherlands
Conf. Date:	December 12-14, 1984
Date:	1985
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1584
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	households sociology households--models
Abstract:	"The paper investigates the changing structure of households according to number of persons, number of children and sex and age of head-person. Definitions and their changes are discussed. Mean number of persons per household has decreased from about 3 in 1950 to about 2.5 in 1980. The proportion of one-person households has increased from about 20% to about 30%. The proportion of households with children has decreased from about one half to about one third of the households. The proportion of households headed by a woman has increased from about 20% to about 30%."

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