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Topic: Families, Children and Young People

Latest Summaries

  • Video Summary: Families and Households in England and Wales, 2011 30-Jan-2013
    This podcast accompanies the analysis that presents the current picture of families and households in England and Wales using 2011 Census data
  • Video Summary: Cohabitation in the UK, 2012 01-Nov-2012
    This YouTube video analyses the characteristics of people who are cohabiting with a partner.
  • Young Adults Living With Parents - Animated YouTube Video 29-May-2012
    A podcast explaining the characteristics of young adults aged between 20 and 34 who live with their parents using audio commentary and graphical animations.
  • Lone parents with dependent children 19-Jan-2012
    This summary details the characteristics of lone parents with dependent children in 2011 and how those characteristics have changed since 2001.
  • Summary of statistics available about only children 16-Dec-2011
    The Office for National Statistics does not have the information to determine the number of only children living in the UK, because although there are statistics about children living with any siblings in the same household, it is not possible to determine the number of children with any siblings living elsewhere. However, some insight can still be provided into this subject by examining the number of women who reach the end of their childbearing years having had only one child, and the number of families with only one child living in the household.
  • Children in families 14-Apr-2011
    The number of dependent children living in families in the UK has remained stable between 2001 and 2010 at 13.3 million. While the number of dependent children has not significantly changed, the types of families in which they live have changed: There has been a fall in the number of dependent children in married couple families.

Latest Publications

  • Family size in 2012 25-Mar-2013
    This report analyses families in the UK by the number of dependent children they have, with a particular focus on those with three or more dependent children. It examines trends over time, where such families live and their economic activity.
  • An overview of 40 years of data (General Lifestyle Survey Overview - a report on the 2011 General Lifestyle Survey) 07-Mar-2013
    The 2011 General Lifestyle Survey Overview report marks 40 years of results from a continuous household survey. The survey has monitored changes in the demographic, social and economic characteristics of households, families and people in Great Britain. These are some of the key changes measured by the survey during this time.
  • Chapter 3 - Households, familes and people (General Lifestyle Survey Overview - a report on the 2011 General Lifestyle Survey) 07-Mar-2013
    Data on Households, families and people taken from the 2011 General Lifestyle Survey on how the composition of households and families has changed over the last 40 years.
  • 2011 Census: Key Statistics for England and Wales, March 2011 11-Dec-2012
    This bulletin, 2011 Census Key Statistics for England and Wales examines the defining characteristics of the population, who we are, how we live and what we do. The 2001 Census statistics covered are unique because the census is the only information source that measures these characteristics together across the whole population.
  • 2011 Census: Key Statistics for Wales, March 2011 11-Dec-2012
    This bulletin, 2011 Census Key Statistics for Wales examines the defining characteristics of the population, who we are, how we live and what we do. The 2001 Census statistics covered are unique because the census is the only information source that measures these characteristics together across the whole population.
  • Cyfrifiad 2011: Ystadegau Allweddol ar gyfer Cymru, Mawrth 2011 11-Dec-2012
    Mae'r bwletin hwn, sef Ystadegau Allweddol Cyfrifiad 2011 ar gyfer Cymru, yn cyflwyno nodweddion diffiniol y boblogaeth, pwy ydym, sut rydym yn byw a beth rydym yn ei wneud. Mae'r ystadegau a gwmpesir o Gyfrifiad 2001 yn unigryw oherwydd y cyfrifiad yw'r unig ffynhonnell wybodaeth sy'n mesur y nodweddion hyn gyda'i gilydd ar draws y boblogaeth gyfan.

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