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The number of people living alone is increasing much more rapidly than the total population of the United States. In the period since 1960, approximately one-third of all new households contain but one person. Data from the one-in-a-thousand sample of the 1960 Census of Population are analyzed to determine the demographic characteristics of the one-person household as well as to formulate explanations for their increase. The hypothesis is advanced that the primary reason for this increase is the dominance of the small nuclear family.
John C. Belcher (Tue,) studied this question.