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 "title": "Households and people living alone, UK",
 "category": "population",
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  "Households and one-person households in the UK, in thousands, from the Labour Force Survey's household datasets for April to June each year; the ONS gives each estimate with a confidence interval, and from 2011 a household is people who share a living room or sitting room or at least one meal a day, as well as an address.",
  "The ONS no longer publishes these estimates for Northern Ireland alone; the nations' own statisticians publish the official household estimates for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.",
  "The Office for National Statistics publishes these as accredited official statistics."
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:52:19Z",
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  "note": "2.36 people a household on average; 8,570,000 people living alone"
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