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Scotlands Census 2001 Statistics on Moving Households and Moving Groups

Table 8 Moving group reference persons (MGRPs) in wholly and partly moving households at the time of the Census : Breakdown by age for different household sizes

Age of MGRP
(percentage in each age category)

All sizes

Household size

1 person

2 people

3 people

4 people

5 people or more

MGRPs in wholly moving households:

All ages (number)

167,619

80,805

43,509

21,148

15,816

6,341

Under 20

3.4

4.7

3.4

1.4

0.6

0.7

20-24

11.6

14.3

11.8

9.3

3.7

2.9

25-29

15.7

17.4

15.9

15.5

9.8

7.0

30-34

16.8

13.9

15.6

23.8

23.4

21.3

35-39

13.5

9.6

9.7

19.1

29.2

31.0

40-44

9.7

7.6

7.2

11.9

19.2

22.8

45-49

6.7

6.3

6.0

7.8

8.8

9.2

50-54

5.8

5.9

7.2

5.3

3.5

3.1

55-64

7.7

8.1

11.8

4.2

1.4

1.6

65-74

5.6

6.3

8.9

1.4

0.2

0.2

75 & over

3.5

5.9

2.5

0.3

0.1

0.1

Average age (complete years)

39

40

41

36

37

38

MGRPs in partly moving households:

All ages (number)

184,812

 

76,947

50,684

33,327

23,854

Under 16

8.1

 

3.6

9.0

12.6

14.6

16-19

8.9

 

7.2

9.4

9.4

12.2

20-24

29.6

 

29.5

30.8

28.9

28.5

25-29

19.5

 

24.4

18.8

14.7

12.2

30-34

11.7

 

12.4

11.4

11.4

10.2

35-39

7.3

 

6.0

7.0

9.2

9.1

40-44

4.7

 

4.0

4.3

5.9

5.8

45-49

3.0

 

3.1

2.9

3.3

2.7

50-54

2.3

 

2.8

2.3

1.8

1.5

55-64

2.5

 

3.7

2.0

1.3

1.3

65-74

1.3

 

2.1

0.7

0.6

1.0

75 & over

1.1

 

1.2

1.3

0.8

0.9

Average age (complete years)

28

 

30

27

27

26

 

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