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• Housing Statistics Summary 04: The effects of divorce, remarriage, separation and the information of new couple households on the number of separate households

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Summary

The large increase in the number of divorces in the 1970s and 1980s and the consequent increase in the number of households headed by divorced men and women, led to growing interest in the housing effects of divorce and how far they are cancelled out by remarriage. There has also been a large increase in the number of cohabiting couple households and dissolutions of couple households, which are not picked up by divorce statistics. To collect information about the housing effects of divorce and remarriage the Department of the Environment arranged for special questions to be placed in the General Household Survey (GHS) Family Information Section.

More Information is available in the full report, Divorce, Remarriage and Housing: The Effects of Divorce, Remarriage, Separation and the Formation of New Couple Households on the Number of Separate Households and Housing Demand Conditions by Alan E Holmans priced £73.00, ISBN 1-85112-35-3.

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