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Married People

Original answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated January 2010:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on how many married couples (a) are both over the age of 65, (b) are both in work, (c) are living apart, (d) have no children and (e) have one or more children under the age of five; and if she will make a statement. (310671)""The latest, available information requested is given in the table attached. The figures are from ONS's Annual Population Survey (APS) household datasets for the period January to December 2008. Information on the number of couples living apart is not collected and is therefore not presented.""As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty as different samples could give different results."

Table:1 Number of married couples¹ by various characteristics, United Kingdom, January to December 2008
	Number of people (thousand)
Number of married couples	12,170
of whom
both are over the age of 65	2,060
both are in employment	5,270
have no children	6,040
have one or more children under the age of five	1,730
¹ Excludes cohabiting and same sex couples.
Source:
APS household datasets (ONS).

It has since been corrected.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

504 c51-2W (507 15-6MC); 310671

Session

2009-10

Related items

Cabinet Office Married People
Monday, 15 March 2010
Written corrections
House of Commons

Notes

Corrected on 15 March 2010 at 507 c15-6MC.

Subjects

Married people

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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