§ Mr. John Corrieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of households in the area covered by the North Cunninghame constituency are single-parent families.
§ Mr. YoungerAnswers to the question on relationship in the 1981 Census were processed on a 10 per cent. sample basis and no analysis of these is available for the area specified.
From answers to the questions on age, sex and marital status relating to usual residents of private households in Cunninghame, North county constituency which were occupied on census night, it is known that 2.2 per cent. of these households consisted of one person aged 16 or over and one or more under 16 and it is estimated that 5.4 per cent. of them contained at least one one-parent family with dependent children (under 16 or single students under 25).