• The proportion of one-person households in Great Britain increased by 9 percentage points between 1971 and 1991, and a further 2 percentage points to 29 per cent in 2001 and then remained at this level to 2005. (Table 2.1)
• The number of households in Great Britain increased by 30 per cent between 1971 and 2005 from 18.6 million to 24.2 million. (Table 2.1)
• In England, young men were more likely than young women to live with their parents. In 2005, 57 per cent of men aged 20 to 24 did so compared with 38 per cent of women of the same age. (Table 2.5)
• In spring 2005 nearly one in four dependent children lived in a lone-parent family in Great Britain. (Page 24)
• In 2001 people from the Mixed ethnic group were the most likely to be married to someone outside their ethnic group in England and Wales. (Figure 2.10) Latest information on marriages
• There has been a rise in the proportion of births occurring outside marriage. In 1980, 12 per cent of all births in the United Kingdom were outside marriage; by 2004 this had increased to 42 per cent. (Table 2.19)
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