In message <64pbvvF2asrgmU1@mid.individual.net>, "tim (not at home)"
writes
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>Where does this 2.8 million adults come from?
The treasury report referred to earlier said;
"The unbanked
6. The Family Resources Survey, a periodic survey undertaken by the
Office for National
Statistics (ONS), indicated that in 2002–03 around 1.9 million
households in Great Britain
(around 8 per cent of the total number of households) were without
access to a bank
account of any kind. These households contained around 2.8 million
adults and at least 1
million children. A further 1.1 million households did not have access
to a current account.
As the chart below shows, while the proportion of households without a
current account
had fallen over time, the number of households without an account of any
kind had
remained broadly constant."
That's where the figure came from.
>ISTM that it does not equate
>to 1 in 12 (about 2 million) of households. It probably equates to half a
>million. It is likley that many of the non-bank account owing adults are
>going to still be living at at home with parents and thus don't constitute a
>household.
>
Well it claims that 1.9 million households contain 2.8 million adults so
I'm sure you are right that some of those people are living with others.
>If someone is claiming 1 in 12 of households do not have a bank account I
>would expect that to equal about 6 million adults to have the same status.
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>tim
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