In message , Cynic
writes
>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:44:05 GMT, Mike_B
>wrote:
>
>>>IME travellers have no problem with providing "proof" of address. The
>>>other group would be the homeless and people living in hostels and
>>>B&Bs provided by social care. I can believe that few of those people
>>>would have a bank account - or any need for one. But I would not
>>>regard such people as living in a "household" nor that they form any
>>>significant proportion of the population.
>
>>A household can be a household of one.
>
>But would you regard a person who lives in a cardboard box in the
>street as being a "household"? Or a person living in a "home"?
>
Well certainly the benefits system classes any single individual with no
partner or dependent children as a household of one, regardless of where
they live. I am not aware of these surveys having different definitions
but I could be wrong.
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Mike_B |