Household living arrangements
Time series on living arrangements of the population reveal demographic change. For example 5.4% of men and 12.1% of all women in private households lived in single-person-households in the year 1971 (2010 – men: 14.3%; women: 17.1%). By contrast the shares of persons who live as husband or wife with children in the household decreased strongly (1971: men 30.4%; women 27.3%. 2010: men 24.1%; women 23.0%). This development is to some extent due to the rise of the cohabiting couples with children.
During the course of their lives people have different types of living arrangements. Certain age-specific patterns can be identified here that differ for men and women.
Up until 15 years of age almost all persons live in
the parental home or with one parent as children. This is also the case
with the overwhelming majority of the population up to the age of 20
(15
From the age of 30, men and women live primarily in
families with a partner and children (30
With increasing age the gender-specific differences continue to increase. Whereas men mainly live in partnerships up into the oldest age groups, the picture for older women is quite different. They often spend their final years living alone, particularly in the 80+ age group (women: 58.4%; men: 27.5%).
Only a very low percentage of people are living in institutional households. The percentage increases with age, especially older women are living in institutional households. Apart from the data of the Population Census 2001, there is also data of the institutional households available since 2008, which is divided to age, sex and type of institution.
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