VARIATION IN THE HOUSEHOLD TYPES IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN 1971 TO 2007 IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE GIVEN DATA.
OVERALL, THE CHANGES ARE RECORDED IN EVERY TEN YEARS STARTING FROM 1971 TO 2007 IN THE END . THE FIGURE ARE REPRESENTED IN PERCENTAGE. ALONG WITH THAT, THE HOUSEHOLD TYPES ARE CATAGORISED IN 2 GROUPS; ONE PERSON AND ONE-FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS. ONE-FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS ARE SUB CATEGORISED IN COUPLE WITH NO CHILDREN OR DEPENDENT CHILDREN OR NON- DEPENDENT CHILDREN AND THE SECOND SUB CATEGORY IS LONE PARENT.
TO BEGIN WITH, ONE PERSON HOUSEHOLD IS VERY RARE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AS THEY REPRESENT VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE BETWEEN 1971 TO 2007.SECONDLY, THE LEAST AMOUNT OF ONE PERSON HOUSEHOLD IS IN 1971 WHICH IS GRADUALLY INCREASING OVER THE YEARS BUT TAKES IT STAYS SAME AFTER 2001 AS IN 2007 THE FIGURE REMAINS THE SAME.
MOREOVER, IN ONE-FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS WHERE COUPLES HAVE NO CHILDREN, THEIR NUMBERS ARE INCREASING OVER THE YEARS BEACUSE THE CONCEPT OF HAVING NO CHILDREN MIGHT HAVE GAINED POPULARITY OVER THE YEARS. FURTHERMORE, COUPLES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN IS THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF SUB GROUP BUT IT SEEMS THAT THEIR NUMBER ARE DRASTICALLY DECLINING OVER THE YEARS WITH HIGH MARGINS AND THIS MIGHT BECAUSE OF THE COST OF RAISING CHILDRENS NOWADAYS .CONTINUING, COUPLES WITH NON-DEPENDENT CHILDREN ARE ALSO DECLING BUT NOT BY A GREATER PERCENTAGE AS THE FIGURE OF 10% IS SAME IN 1971 AND 1981 HOWEVER, THERE IS A INCREASE IN THEIR NUMBER IN THE FOLLOWING DECADE BY 1%, IN 2001 AND 2007 THE NUMBER AGAIN DECREASES BY 2% WIH THE FIGURE BEING 9%.LASTLY, THE LONE PARENT SUB-GROUP, THERE IS INCREASE IN THERE NUMBERS AS WELL WITH MARGIN OF 2% EXCEPT AFTER 2001 AND ONE POSSIBLE REASON FOR THIS COULD BE INCREASE IN DIVORCE RATES.