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Weekly Bulletin issue no. 30-31, 1998 <sti>Stikktittel

Population Statistics. Children and Families, 1 January 1998:

More People Live Alone

As per 1 January of this year 953,100 persons were registered as living alone. This entails an increase of almost 17,000 one-person families during the past year. At the same time the trend with more cohabitant couples with common children and fewer married couples with children continues.
Family statistics show that per 1 January there were a total of 2,072,653 families in Norway. This is an increase of 20,300 relative to the year before, and a significant part of this increase is due to the increase in the number of single persons. A single person is counted as a family unit in the statistics. However, the total number of single persons includes a number of cohabitants because the statistics are not currently able to distinguish other cohabitant couples than those who have common children.

Cohabitant couples with two or more children

The number of cohabitant couples who have several children living at home is increasing. This change is especially noticeable for cohabitant couples with two children and to some extent for cohabitant couples with three children, which together increased by a total of 3,700. The number of married couples with three or more children under 18 living at home has risen slightly by 900 on a national basis, while the number of married couples with one child under 18 has declined in relation to last year.

New Statistics

Population Statistics. Children and Families, 1 January 1998.
The statistics are published annually in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. For more information and e-mail, contact: ingvild.hauge@ssb.no, tel. +47 62 88 52 24, or oivind.rustad@ssb.no, tel. +47 62 88 52 88.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 30-31, 1998