Would be interesting to see how it’s defined. We do have a lot of big houses with an elderly couple or just a single old person living in them and there isn’t really a culture of people downsizing as they their kids move on or whatever. I wonder if this is replicated elsewhere in the continent. If not, it could easily be a cultural artifact of the evictions and dispossessions of the 19th century that led to the formation of the land league. Irish people are very big on the idea of the family home staying in the family, even if there are few people living in it.
First time I’ve seen Guyana in a map of Europe
The overcrowding rate is defined as the percentage of the population living in an overcrowded household.
A person is considered as living in an overcrowded household if the household does not have at its disposal a minimum number of rooms equal to:
one room for the household;
one room per couple in the household;
one room for each single person aged 18 or more;
one room per pair of single people of the same gender between 12 and 17 years of age;
one room for each single person between 12 and 17 years of age and not included in the previous category;
one room per pair of children under 12 years of age.
Does anyone know what that ‘Break in Series…’ means in the lower left footnote?
I think this would vary heavily depending on how each governments’ statistics are gathered.
I do agree the most vulnerable living in the most crowded houseshares tend not to be captured as easily but I think that would be a problem across europe. Also your froggy profile pic is cute
As globalization takes wealth away from Europe, North America, and Australia you will likely see a return to multigenerational households. Prior to 20th century it was the norm.
Our houses tend to be 3 – 4beds. It’s very rare to find a two bedroom house. Often the layout is silly too. I don’t know if the ‘box room’ is so common in other countries but often you’ll get a three bed house with a box room and two small-ish rooms which would be better off as a two bed house or it might have a really tiny bathroom because they really wanted to squeeze that third bedroom in.
The houses on my street are mostly large 4 bedroomed Edwardian redbricks, half of them seem to have only one occupant, usually an elderly widow. In the UK or Belgium such properties are normally broken up into multiple occupancy residences.
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Would be interesting to see how it’s defined. We do have a lot of big houses with an elderly couple or just a single old person living in them and there isn’t really a culture of people downsizing as they their kids move on or whatever. I wonder if this is replicated elsewhere in the continent. If not, it could easily be a cultural artifact of the evictions and dispossessions of the 19th century that led to the formation of the land league. Irish people are very big on the idea of the family home staying in the family, even if there are few people living in it.
First time I’ve seen Guyana in a map of Europe
The overcrowding rate is defined as the percentage of the population living in an overcrowded household.
A person is considered as living in an overcrowded household if the household does not have at its disposal a minimum number of rooms equal to:
one room for the household;
one room per couple in the household;
one room for each single person aged 18 or more;
one room per pair of single people of the same gender between 12 and 17 years of age;
one room for each single person between 12 and 17 years of age and not included in the previous category;
one room per pair of children under 12 years of age.
Does anyone know what that ‘Break in Series…’ means in the lower left footnote?
I think this would vary heavily depending on how each governments’ statistics are gathered.
I do agree the most vulnerable living in the most crowded houseshares tend not to be captured as easily but I think that would be a problem across europe. Also your froggy profile pic is cute
As globalization takes wealth away from Europe, North America, and Australia you will likely see a return to multigenerational households. Prior to 20th century it was the norm.
Our houses tend to be 3 – 4beds. It’s very rare to find a two bedroom house. Often the layout is silly too. I don’t know if the ‘box room’ is so common in other countries but often you’ll get a three bed house with a box room and two small-ish rooms which would be better off as a two bed house or it might have a really tiny bathroom because they really wanted to squeeze that third bedroom in.
The houses on my street are mostly large 4 bedroomed Edwardian redbricks, half of them seem to have only one occupant, usually an elderly widow. In the UK or Belgium such properties are normally broken up into multiple occupancy residences.