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51% of People in the UK identify as "single"
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This is quite interesting ..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31461595
There's an interactive map here so you can see the percentage of singletons in your area. Clearly a handy dating tool
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/where-do-single-people-live-in-england-and-wales/
)This is quite interesting ..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31461595
So what proportion of the population is single if you don't count cohabiting as being single? According to this report, there were estimated to be 5.9 million people cohabiting in the UK in 2012, which was 11.7% of the population over 16.
That had risen from 6.5% in 1996, making it the fastest growing type of family in the UK.
So, if you're counting all people who have never been married, or who are divorced or widowed, as being single, then that has indeed risen above 50% for the first time. If you consider cohabiting couples not to be single then it's well below 40%.
There's an interactive map here so you can see the percentage of singletons in your area. Clearly a handy dating tool
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/where-do-single-people-live-in-england-and-wales/
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And Northern Ireland
Feel your pain!
I think single people will become more common just like in Japan where they sleep with Nintendo DS consoles rather than a real person and never get a real partner. In a few years I think that will start to happen here with the new generations as they spend the whole time in their rooms and do not go out.
I can't either and I know it's because of me.
Of course, the fact that I don't like to go out to grotty, smelly meat market nightclubs (the only option around here) doesn't help.
Its pointless going out to a club to meet a girl if you don't like clubs, I don't either I have been there, done all that clubbing and did not like it at all, and I would not go with a girl in that state.
All clubs are grotty really, some just look better than others and don't have sticky floors.
It depends what you want from a girlfriend as well, do you want to find a long term partner or just a girlfriend and that is it. I have given up on finding one, all girls seem to look at me with disgust as if I were a murderer or something, maybe I look like one.:cool:
The only time girls had interest in me was in college, and I did not take up the offers as I thought I did not want a full relationship, a fatal mistake.
If you could meet girls I bet you would eventually get a girlfriend, but its meeting them which is the problem for me at least.
Looking at that interactive map, it's interesting that the highest concentration of single people always seems to be in towns and cities, especially the central areas.
The data also confirms what was already stated by Edinburgh University and the ONS - single men outnumber single women in the UK across all the age ranges in the data gathered from the 2011 census.
not petty at all...i'm just surprised that Wales was included for once......bloody anglocentrism >:(
Quite common - it's because of who controls the data the report is based on. So the authors only had access to the England/Wales set and would have had to make requests to the Scottish & NI governments for their data
I remember reading that there's a similar problem in china but the ratio of single men to women is far, far worse and that it was causing chinese men to go to ever increasing extremes to try and find a partner because of a perceived pressure to get married and start a family.
That basically makes the WHOLE survey a complete farce and non valid really.
What is the point of compiling such data if it is going to be so fundamentally flawed???
It says in the article:
Not sure where they got the definition of "single" from, as it doesn't match the definitions in the dictionaries I've checked.
On a lot of forms and applications the options are married or single.
In those circumstances I am single but it can't be used to give a true reflection of my status.
That's me and my Mother, divorced and widowed still in relationships then
If I've read that correctly.
But there's no other official source of information that can come close to the ONS in terms of such data from what I can see. Maybe one to address for the 2021 census.
I've been with my partner since 1990 and don't consider myself single in any way, shape or form but apparently I am according to this