[PW] Total Number of Households

[Namiko Suga]

Ah, true. By region I mean Europe, AsiaPac, Middle East/Africa, etc.

The difficulty is where I have some average size of households per
country but the data is very spotty and not up to date. I was hoping
that there would be some CIA Factbook-type website that could give me
the data and let me know when it was last changed. 

I've found a paper that offers an equation to calculate the household
numbers but that's way over my head.

Thank you,
Namiko

-----Original Message-----
From: S M Colowick [mailto:januarye at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:58 AM
To: list at project-wombat.org; Namiko Suga
Subject: Re: [PW] Total Number of Households

It would help to know what you mean by "region" of the world. But I
would think that if you have the household size for a country/region,
you would just divide that into the population to get the number. For
example: "In 1985, the average household size was 4.7 in hotspot
countries and 3.7 in non-hotspot countries."
(http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/1283/content.htm). The average
number of houseolds for each type of country would be whatever their
total populations are divided by 4.7 and 3.7.

Susie

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Namiko Suga <suga at abiresearch.com>
wrote:

> I'm looking for the total number of households in the world (by
region),

> I keep finding figures for the number of people that
> make up a household per country instead of what I need.