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Scotlands Census 2001 Statistics on Moving Households and Moving Groups

Table 9 Wholly moving, partly moving and non moving households at the time of the Census : Breakdown by household size and ethnic group of household reference person

Household size
(percentage in each size category)

Total

Ethnic group of household reference person

White

Indian

Pakistani & Other South Asian

Chinese

Other

Wholly moving households:

All sizes (number)

167,619

162,860

826

1,355

639

1,939

1 person

48.2

48.3

35.4

41.5

54.3

51.5

2 people

26.0

26.1

30.1

13.9

18.6

22.4

3 people

12.6

12.6

20.3

14.4

13.0

10.2

4 people

9.4

9.4

9.2

15.3

10.8

9.8

5 people or more

3.8

3.7

5.0

14.9

3.3

6.1

Average household size (number)

2.0

1.9

2.2

2.6

1.9

2.0

Partly moving households:

All sizes (number)

120,090

116,210

581

1,218

674

1,407

2 people

42.5

42.8

31.2

28.2

36.2

40.4

3 people

28.2

28.3

29.3

18.6

28.0

27.0

4 people

17.6

17.6

18.8

16.3

18.1

18.4

5 people or more

11.7

11.3

20.8

36.9

17.7

14.1

Average household size (number)

3.0

3.0

3.5

4.1

3.3

3.2

Non moving households:

All sizes (number)

1,904,537

1,882,527

3,528

8,027

4,087

6,368

1 person

33.6

33.7

20.5

15.6

25.3

35.1

2 people

33.1

33.3

22.4

13.6

22.4

26.1

3 people

15.0

15.0

16.9

15.3

18.8

16.0

4 people

12.9

12.8

20.7

17.7

19.9

14.1

5 people or more

5.3

5.2

19.5

37.7

13.6

8.7

Average household size (number)

2.2

2.2

3.1

3.8

2.8

2.4

 

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