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  TABLE 3.1 Household size: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 3.2 Household type: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 3.3 Percentage living alone, by age: 1973 to 2001
TABLE 3.4 Percentage living alone, by age and sex
TABLE 3.5 Type of household: 1979 to 2001
TABLE 3.6 Family type, and marital status of lone mothers: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 3.7 Family type and number of dependent children: 1972 to 2001
TABLE 3.8 Average (mean) number of dependent children by family type: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 3.9 Age of youngest dependent child by family type
TABLE 3.10 Stepfamilies by family type
TABLE 3.11 Usual gross weekly household income by family type
TABLE 3.12 Age by sex: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 3.13 Sex by age
TABLE 3.14 Socio-economic Classification based on own current or last job by sex
TABLE 3.15 Ethnic group
TABLE 3.16 National identity and age
TABLE 3.17 Combined national identities and age
TABLE 3.18 National Identity and Government Office Region
TABLE 3.19 National Identity and ethnic origin
TABLE 3.20 Combined national identities and ethnic origin
TABLE 3.21 Weighted bases for tables 3.3 and 3.8
TABLE 4.1 Tenure: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 4.2 Type of accommodation: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 4.3 Type of accommodation occupied by households renting from a council compared with other households: ...
TABLE 4.4 (a) Type of accommodation by tenure (b) Tenure by type of accommodation
TABLE 4.5 Age of building by tenure
TABLE 4.6 (a) Household type by tenure (b) Tenure by household type
TABLE 4.7 Housing profile by family type: lone-parent families compared with other families
TABLE 4.8 Type of accommodation by household type
TABLE 4.9 Usual gross weekly income by tenure
TABLE 4.10 (a) Age of household reference person by tenure (b) Tenure by age of household reference person
TABLE 4.11 Tenure by sex and marital status of household reference person
TABLE 4.12 (a) Socio-economic classfication and economic activity status of household reference person by tenur...
TABLE 4.13 (a) Length of residence of household reference person by tenure (b) Tenure by length of residence o...
TABLE 4.14 Persons per room: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 4.15 Persons per room and mean household size by tenure
TABLE 4.16 Closeness of fit relative to the bedroom standard by tenure
TABLE 4.17 Cars or vans: 1972 to 2001
TABLE 4.18 Availability of a car or van by socio-economic classification of household reference person
TABLE 4.19 Consumer durables, central heating and cars: 1972 to 2001
TABLE 4.20 Consumer durables, central heating and cars by socio-economic classification of household reference ...
TABLE 4.21 Consumer durables, central heating and cars by usual gross weekly household income
TABLE 4.22 Consumer durables, central heating and cars by household type
TABLE 4.23 Consumer durables, central heating and cars by family type: lone-parent families compared with other...
TABLE 5.1 Sex by marital status
TABLE 5.2 (a) Age by sex and marital status (b) Marital status by sex and age
TABLE 5.3 Percentage currently cohabiting by sex and age
TABLE 5.4 Percentage currently cohabiting by legal marital status and age
TABLE 5.5 Cohabiters: age by legal marital status
TABLE 5.6 Cohabiters: age by sex
TABLE 5.7 Legal marital status of women aged 18-49: 1979 to 2001
TABLE 5.8 Percentage of women aged 18-49 cohabiting by legal marital status: 1979 to 2001
TABLE 5.9 Table 5.9 (a) Whether had dependent children in the household by marital status (b) Marital status...
TABLE 5.10 Women aged 16-59: percentage cohabiting by legal marital status and whether has dependent children i...
TABLE 5.11 Cohabiting women aged 16-59: Whether has dependent children in the household by legal marital status...
TABLE 5.12 Number of past cohabitations not ending in marriage by sex and age
TABLE 5.13 Number of past cohabitations not ending in marriage by current marital status and sex
TABLE 5.14 Age at first cohabitation which did not end in marriage by year cohabitation began and sex
TABLE 5.15 Duration of past cohabitations which did not end in marriage by number of past cohabitations and sex
TABLE 5.16 How people chose to date the end of 'living together', by the date given
TABLE 6.1 Current pension scheme membership by age and sex
TABLE 6.2 Membership of current employer's pension scheme by sex and whether working full time or part time
TABLE 6.3 Membership of current employer's pension scheme by sex: 1983 to 2001
TABLE 6.4 Current pension scheme membership by socio-economic classification
TABLE 6.5 Membership of current employer's pension scheme by sex and socio-economic classification
TABLE 6.6 Current pension scheme membership by sex and usual gross weekly earnings
TABLE 6.7 Current pension scheme membership by sex and length of time with current employer
TABLE 6.8 Membership of current employer's pension scheme by sex and length of time with current employer
TABLE 6.9 Current pension scheme membership by sex and number of employees in the establishment
TABLE 6.10 Membership of current employer's pension scheme by sex and number of employees at the establishment
TABLE 6.11 Current pension scheme membership by sex and industry group
TABLE 6.12 Membership of personal pension scheme by sex and whether working full-time or part time: self-employ...
TABLE 6.13 Membership of a personal pension scheme for self-employed men working full time: 1991 to 2001
TABLE 6.14 Membership of personal pension scheme by sex and length of time in self-employment
TABLE 7.1 Trends in self-reported sickness by sex and age, 1972 to 2001: percentage of persons who reported (a...
TABLE 7.1 CON 7.1 continued
TABLE 7.2 Self perception of general health during the last 12 months
TABLE 7.3 Acute sickness: average number of restricted activity days per person per year, by sex and age
TABLE 7.4 Chronic sickness: prevalence of reported longstanding illness by sex, age and socio-economic classif...
TABLE 7.5 Chronic sickness: prevalence of reported limiting longstanding illness by sex, age and socio-economi...
TABLE 7.6 Acute sickness (a) Prevalence of reported restricted activity in the 14 days before interview, by se...
TABLE 7.7 Chronic sickness: prevalence of reported longstanding illness by sex, age, and economic activity sta...
TABLE 7.8 Chronic sickness: prevalence of reported limiting longstanding illness by sex, age, and economic ac...
TABLE 7.9 Acute sickness (a) Prevalence of reported restricted activity in the 14 days before interview, by se...
TABLE 7.10 Self-reported sickness by sex and Government Office Region: percentage of persons who reported (a) l...
TABLE 7.11 Prevalence of: (a) longstanding illness by sex and NHS Regional Office area (b) limiting longstandin...
TABLE 7.12 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting longstanding condition groups, by sex
TABLE 7.13 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting longstanding condition groups, by age
TABLE 7.14 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting selected longstanding condition groups, by age and sex
TABLE 7.15 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting selected longstanding conditions, by age and sex
TABLE 7.16 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting selected longstanding condition groups, by socio-economic ...
TABLE 7.17 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting selected longstanding condition groups, by age and sex and...
TABLE 7.18 Trends in consultations with an NHS GP in the 14 days before interview: 1972 to 2001
TABLE 7.19 Average number of NHS GP consultations per person per year: 1972 to 2001
TABLE 7.20 (NHS) GP consultations: trends in site of consultation: 1971 to 2001
TABLE 7.21 (NHS) GP consultations: consultations with doctors in the 14 days before interview, by sex and age o...
TABLE 7.22 (NHS) GP consultations: percentage of persons consulting a doctor in the 14 days before interview, b...
TABLE 7.23 (NHS) GP consultations (a) Percentage of persons who consulted a doctor in the 14 days before interv...
TABLE 7.24 (NHS) GP consultations (a) Percentage of persons who consulted a doctor in the 14 days before interv...
TABLE 7.25 (NHS) GP consultations: percentage of persons consulting a doctor in the 14 days before interview wh...
TABLE 7.26 GP consultations with doctors in the 14 days before interview by whether consultation was NHS or pri...
TABLE 7.27 Reported consultations with a practice nurse by age and sex: 2000 to 2001 (a) percentage consulting ...
TABLE 7.28 Percentage of children using health services in the 14 days before interview
TABLE 7.29 Trends in percentages of persons who reported attending an outpatient or casualty department in a 3 ...
TABLE 7.30 Trends in day-patient treatment in the 12 months before interview, 1992 to 2001
TABLE 7.31 Average number of separate days spent in hospital as a day-patient during the last 12 months
TABLE 7.32 Trends in inpatient stays in the 12 months before interview, 1982 to 2001
TABLE 7.33 Average number of nights spent in hospital as an inpatient during the last 12 months
TABLE 7.34 Inpatient stays and outpatient attendances (a) Average number of inpatient stays per 100 persons in ...
TABLE 8.1 Prevalence of cigarerette smoking by sex and age: 1974 to 2001
TABLE 8.2 Ex-regular cigarette smokers by sex and age: 1974 to 2001
TABLE 8.3 Percentage who have never smoked cigarettes regularly by sex and age: 1974 to 2001
TABLE 8.4 Cigarette-smoking status by sex and marital status
TABLE 8.5 Cigarette-smoking by age and marital status
TABLE 8.6 Prevalence of cigarette smoking by sex and country of Great Britain: 1978 to 2001
TABLE 8.7 Prevalence of cigarette smoking by sex and Government office region: 1998 to 2001
TABLE 8.8 Cigarette smoking status by sex and age: England
TABLE 8.9 Prevalence of cigarette smoking by sex and whether household reference person is in a non-manual or ...
TABLE 8.10 Prevalence of cigarette-smoking by sex & socio-economic classification based on the current or l...
TABLE 8.11 Prevalence of cigarette-smoking by sex and socio-economic classification based on own current or las...
TABLE 8.12 Cigarette smoking status by sex: 1974 to 2001
TABLE 8.13 Cigarette-smoking status by sex and age
TABLE 8.14 Average daily cigarette consumption per smoker by sex and age: 1974 to 2001
TABLE 8.15 Average daily cigarette consumption per smoker by sex, and socio-economic classification based on th...
TABLE 8.16 Type of cigarette smoked by sex: 1974 to 2001
TABLE 8.17 Type of cigarette smoked by sex and age
TABLE 8.18 Tar yield per cigarette: 1986 to 2001
TABLE 8.19 Tar yields by sex and age
TABLE 8.20 Tar yields by sex and socio-economic class based on the current or last job of the household referen...
TABLE 8.21 Prevalence of smoking by sex and type of product smoked: 1974 to 2001
TABLE 8.22 Prevalence of smoking by sex and age and type of product smoked
TABLE 8.23 Proportion of smokers who would like to give up smoking altogether, by sex and number of cigarettes ...
TABLE 8.24 Proportion of smokers who would find it difficult to go without smoking for a day, by sex and number...
TABLE 8.25 Proportion of smokers who have their first cigarette within five minutes of waking, by sex and numbe...
TABLE 9.1 Whether drank last week and number of drinking days by sex and age
TABLE 9.2 Drinking last week by sex and age: 1998 to 2001
TABLE 9.3 Maximum daily amount drunk last week by sex and age
TABLE 9.4 Drinking last week, by sex age and marital status
TABLE 9.5 Whether drank last week, by sex, and socio-economic classification based on the current or last job ...
TABLE 9.6 Percentage who drank on 5 or more days last week, be sex, and socio-economic classificationbased on ...
TABLE 9.7 Percentage who drank more than 4 units (en) and 3 units (women) on at least one day last week, be se...
TABLE 9.8 Percentage who drank more than 8 units (men) and 6 units (women) on at least one day last week, by s...
TABLE 9.9 Drinking last week by sex and usual gross weekly household income
TABLE 9.10 Drinking last week by sex and economic activity stutus
TABLE 9.11 Drinking last week by sex and usual gross weekly earnings
TABLE 9.12 Drinking last week, by sex and Government Office Region
TABLE 9.13 Weekly alcohol consumption level: percentage exceeding specified amounts by sex and age
TABLE 9.14 Average weekly alcohol consumption by sex an age: 1992 to 2001
TABLE 9.15 Average weekly alcohol consumption, by sex, and socio-economic classification based on the current o...
TABLE 9.16 Average weekly alcohol consumption by sex and usual gross weekly household income
TABLE 9.17 Average weekly alcohol consumption by sex and economic activity status
TABLE 9.18 Average weekly alcohol consumption, by sex and usual gross weekly earnings
TABLE 9.19 Average weekly alcohol consumption, by sex and Government Office Region
TABLE 10.1 Percentage of persons reporting mobility difficulties, by sex and by age
TABLE 10.2 Percentage of people with mobility aid(s), by sex and age
TABLE 10.3 Percentage of people with mobility aid(s) by type of mobility difficulties
TABLE 10.4 Percentage of people with mobility aid(s) by age and whether has mobility difficulties
TABLE 10.5 Where mobility difficulties were experienced by age
TABLE 10.6 Percentage of people with mobility aid(s) by where mobility difficulties were experienced
TABLE 10.7 Percentage of people with the type of equipment they required ('met need')
TABLE 10.8 Source of mobility aids and percentage in use by source
TABLE 10.9 Type of mobility as a percentage of all mobility aids and percentage in use according to type of aid
TABLE 10.10 Regularity of use outdoors of mobility aids by type
TABLE 10.11 Where mobility aids were used by type
TABLE 10.12 Percentage of people who use wheelchairs by whether they require assistance
TABLE B.1 The sample of addresses and households
TABLE B.2 Quarterly and annual response
TABLE B.3 Middle response rates by Government Office Region
TABLE B.4 Trends in the middle response rate: 1971 to 2001
TABLE B.5 Unweighted bases: number of household reference persons in GHS 2001 by age, sex, region and country
TABLE B.6 Unweighted bases: number of people in GHS 2001 by age, sex, region and country
TABLE C.1 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for household's tenure, household type and accommodatio...
TABLE C.2 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for number of persons and cars at each household
TABLE C.3 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for households' ownership of a video, compact disc play...
TABLE C.4 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for age and sex
TABLE C.5 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for marital status
TABLE C.6 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for ethnic origin
TABLE C.7 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for education level
TABLE C.8 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for socio-economic group and employment status of adult...
TABLE C.9 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for health measures
TABLE C.10 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for cigarette smoking
TABLE C.11 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for alcohol consumption (maximum daily amount)
TABLE C.12 Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals for number of cohabitations
TABLE D.1 Weighted versus unweighted data for years 1998 to 2001 - households
TABLE D.2 Weighted versus unweighted data for years 1998 to 2001 - individuals
TABLE E.1 NS-SEC: Comparison of the General Household Survey and Labour Force Survey
TABLE E.2 Comparison of old and new ethnic classification using data from the Labour Force Survey
TABLE E.3 Ethnic Group: GHS and LFS compared
TABLE E.4 National Identity: Comparison of the General Household Survey and Labour Force Survey
TABLE 1 Comparison of samples of men and women aged 65 and over by age, marital status and household type: 1...
TABLE 2 Marital status by sex and age
TABLE 3 Household type by sex and age
TABLE 4 Household type by sex and marital status
TABLE 5 Tenure, type and age of accommodation, bedroom standard and central heating: 1980 to 2001
TABLE 6 Tenure, type and age of accommodation, bedroom standard and central heating by household type
TABLE 7 People living in sheltered accommodation by age and household type
TABLE 8 Consumer durables: 1980 to 2001
TABLE 9 Consumer durables by household type
TABLE 10 Chronic sickness: reported longstanding illness by sex and age
TABLE 11 Chronic sickness: reported longstanding illness by sex: 1980 to 2001
TABLE 12 Chronic sickness: reported longstanding illness by sex, age and household type
TABLE 13 Acute sickness: average number of restricted activity days per person per year, by sex and age
TABLE 14 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting longstanding condition groups, by age
TABLE 15 Chronic sickness: rate per 1000 reporting selected longstanding condition groups, by age and sex
TABLE 16 Chronic sickness: reported longstanding illness by type of interview
TABLE 17 Chronic sickness: length of longstanding illness by sex and age
TABLE 18 Health in general in the year before interview by sex: 1980 to 2001
TABLE 19 Health in general in the year before interview by sex and age
TABLE 20 Health in general in the year before interview by sex, age and household type
TABLE 21 Reported change in health in the last year by age and sex
TABLE 22 Reported change in health in the last year by sex, age and household type
TABLE 23 Difficulty with eyesight by sex and age
TABLE 24 Difficulty with hearing by sex and age
TABLE 25 Difficulty with hearing by sex: 1980 to 2001
TABLE 26 Cigarette-smoking status by sex and age
TABLE 27 Drinking last week by sex and age
TABLE 28 Drinking last week by sex, age and household type
TABLE 29 Mobility: percentage unable to manage on their own by sex and age
TABLE 30 Level of mobility by sex and age
TABLE 31 Mobility: percentage unable to manage on their own by sex, age and household type
TABLE 32 Level of mobility by sex, age and household type
TABLE 33 Percentage of people needing help to manage stairs, who need to use stairs to get to bedroom or toil...
TABLE 34 Mobility, self-care and some domestic tasks: percentages unable to manage on their own: 1980 to 20...
TABLE 35 Self-care: percentage usually unable to manage on their own by sex and age
TABLE 36 Self-care: percentage usually unable to manage on their own by sex, age and household type
TABLE 37 Domestic tasks: percentage unable to do tasks by themselves by sex and age
TABLE 38 Domestic tasks: percentage unable to do tasks by themselves by sex, age and household type
TABLE 39 Domestic tasks: percentage unable to manage on their own by sex: 1980 to 2001
TABLE 40 Cooking: percentage unable to do tasks by themselves by sex and age
TABLE 41 Cooking: percentage unable to do tasks by themselves by sex, age and household type
TABLE 42 Usual source of help for those able to do various tasks only with help
TABLE 43 Usual source of help for those able to do various tasks only with help by household type
TABLE 44 Percentage reporting mobility difficulties by sex and age
TABLE 45 Percentage with mobility aid(s) by sex and age
TABLE 46 Where mobility aids were used by sex and age
TABLE 47 Main types of mobility aids in use by sex and age
TABLE 48 Ease of managing on own by main types of mobility aid
TABLE 49 Access to a car by sex, age and household type
TABLE 50 Access to a car and whether uses public transport, by sex and household type
TABLE 51 Use of public transport by sex and age
TABLE 52 Frequency of seeing relatives or friends by sex and age
TABLE 53 Frequency of seeing relatives or friends by age and household type
TABLE 54 Contact with neighbours by sex and age
TABLE 55 Contact with neighbours by age and household type
TABLE 56 Use of some health and social services in the three months before interview by sex and age
TABLE 57 Use of some health and social services in the three months before interview by sex, age and househol...
TABLE 58 Use of some personal social services in the month before interview by sex: 1980 to 2001
TABLE 59 Use of some personal social services in the month before interview by sex and age
TABLE 60 Use of some personal social services in the month before interview by sex, age and household type
TABLE 61 Services received in the month before interview by whether able to go outdoors and walk down the roa...
TABLE 62 Whether had a visit from a district nurse, health visitor or other nurse or used a L.A. home help or...
TABLE 63 Whether had a local authority home help in the month before interview, by whether can manage domesti...
TABLE 64 Whether had home help, meals-on-wheels, or went to a lunch club or a day centre for the elderly in t...
TABLE 65 People unable to manage mobility or self-care activities on their own: whether had a visit from a d...
TABLE 66 People unable to manage domestic tasks on their own: whether had a local authority home help in the...
TABLE 67 People unable to cook a meal on their own: whether had L.A. home help, meals on wheels, or went to ...
TABLE B.1 Age, sex, marital status and household type for people aged 65 and over by type of interview
FIGURE 3A Mean household size: Great Britain, 1971-2001
FIGURE 3B Households by type of household: Great Britain,1979 and 2001
FIGURE 3C Families with dependent children by family type: Great Britain, 1971-2001
FIGURE 3D Children and older people - the proportion of the population aged under 16 or 65 and over in 1971 an...
FIGURE 4A Tenure: Great Britain, 1971 to 2001
FIGURE 4B Households with access to a car or van: Great Britain, 1972 to 2001
FIGURE 4C Percentage of households with consumer durables: Great Britain, 1972 to 2001
FIGURE 4D New technology: Great Britain, 2000 to 2001
FIGURE 4E Consumer durables: Lone parent families compared with couples with dependent children: Great Brita...
FIGURE 5A Percentage of non-married men and women aged 16-59 cohabiting by age: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE 5B Percentage of single, divorced and separated women* aged 18-49 cohabiting by legal marital status: G...
FIGURE 6A Membership of current employer's pension scheme by sex and whether working full time or part time: G...
FIGURE 6B Membership of current employer's pension scheme by length of time with current employer: men workin...
FIGURE 7A Percentages of males and females reporting (a) longstanding illness (b) limiting longstanding illnes...
FIGURE 7B Percentage of males and females consulting an NHS GP in the 14 days before interview: Great Britain ...
FIGURE 7C Percentage of males and females reporting an inpatient stay in the 12 months before interview by age...
FIGURE 8A Prevalence of cigarette smoking for men and women: Great Britain, 1974 to 2001
FIGURE 8B Prevalence of cigarette smoking by sex and age: Great Britain, 1980 to 2001
FIGURE 9A Percentage of men and women who had drunk alcohol on 5 days or more in the week prior to interview b...
FIGURE 9B Percentage exceeding daily benchmarks by age: men: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE 9C Percentage exceeding daily benchmarks by age: women: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE 10 A Number of mobility aids per person: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE A.A NHS Regional Office map
FIGURE B.A Stratification
FIGURE D.A Weighting classes formed in the CHAID analysis
FIGURE D.B Weighting classes used for CALMAR analysis
FIGURE EA Analytic classes and opporational categories and sub categories of NS-SEC
FIGURE EB NS-SEC classes and collapses
FIGURE EC Examples of occupations in each of the main NS-SEC categories
FIGURE ED Operational categories of the NS-SEC linked to socio-economic group (SEG)
FIGURE EE National Statistics ethnic group classifications
FIGURE A Household type by sex: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE B Percentage of people living in different household types: Great Britain, 1980 to 2001
FIGURE C Consumer durables: 1980-2001
FIGURE D Percentage reporting a limiting longstanding illness, by age and sex: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE E Percentage reporting their health had been good in the previous year by age and sex: Great Britain, ...
FIGURE F Percentage reporting hearing difficulty by age and sex: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE G Percentage reporting difficulty walking down the road by age: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE H Percentage unable to manage various tasks without help by age: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE I Percentage unable to perform various tasks without help by age and sex: Great Britain, 2001
FIGURE J Percentage who had seen a GP in the previous 3 months by age and sex: Great Britain, 2001