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Housing Statistics Summary 04 The Effects of divorce, remarriage, separation and the formation of new couple households on the number of separate households The large increase in the number of divorces in the 1970s and 1980s and the consequent increase in the number of households headed by divorced men and women, led to growing interest in the housing effects of divorce and how far they are cancelled out by remarriage. There has also been a large increase in the number of cohabiting couple households and dissolutions of couple households, which are not picked up by divorce statistics. To collect information about the housing effects of divorce and remarriage the Department of the Environment (now DETR) arranged for special questions to be placed in the General Household Survey (GHS) Family Information Section. Results from the GHS are analysed with data from other sources including the Survey of English Housing, the 1991 Census Sample of Anonymised Records, and the ONS Longitudinal Study. The latter includes data on the housing of cohabiting couples that dissolved. The report has been written by Alan Holmans of the Property Research Unit in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Key Findings • The net increase in households due to divorce and separation of cohabiting couples, net of the effect of new couples formed by remarriage or cohabitation averaged about 70,000 a year in the early 1990s - about 35% to 40% of the estimated annual average increase in all households. • Of these 70,000 (net) new households around 37,000 were housed in new social sector tenancies and 15,000 in new private tenancies supported by Housing Benefit. • Slightly more than one half of the gross effect of divorce on the number of households is estimated to have been offset by remarriage and new cohabitation. • Divorce rates among owner-occupiers were lower than among tenants. How