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[j4]

Does anybody know whether a majority of households in the UK include one adult who stays at home during some/all of the working day?

I'm just wondering how to account for the fact that commercial companies always seem to be extremely surprised when I tell them that I can't actually stay in all day, every day, on the offchance that they might turn up, as I have a full-time job.

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[pjc50.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think it might be a very large proportion. This web page for example (http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/facts/index36.aspx?ComponentId=7109&SourcePageId=16611) says that 16% of households have nobody economically active in them at all. I get the impression that one full-time + one part-time is quite common, then there are large numbers of people with children etc. I'd estimate the number of households that are empty during the day at about 25%.