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Ernestina Coast [LSE] Sara Randall [UCL] Alex Fanghanel [UCL] Eva Lelièvre [INED]

Sofa surfers and joint-custody children: new living arrangements and household surveys in the UK and France. Ernestina Coast [LSE] Sara Randall [UCL] Alex Fanghanel [UCL] Eva Lelièvre [INED] Sadio Ba- Gning [INED]. Head of Profession for Statistics: UK Government Dept.

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Ernestina Coast [LSE] Sara Randall [UCL] Alex Fanghanel [UCL] Eva Lelièvre [INED]

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  1. Sofa surfers and joint-custody children: new living arrangements and household surveys in the UK and France Ernestina Coast [LSE] Sara Randall [UCL] Alex Fanghanel [UCL] Eva Lelièvre [INED] Sadio Ba-Gning [INED]

  2. Head of Profession for Statistics:UK Government Dept. “If it’s a standard household it’s bleeding obvious…”

  3. The Research Overall aim: To understand the implications of harmonised definitions of household in surveys, in particular focusing on the ability of such data to represent new and emergent living arrangements in Europe This paper: To explore which new forms of living arrangements and households are (not) captured and / or represented in household surveys and censuses in the UK and France.

  4. Research methods Comparative research in France and UK • In-depth semi-structured interviews with a range of key informants in the UK and France • Detailed case study households (n=60) in the UK and France, producing qualitative data on living arrangements. Purposively selected : • different environments – capital, smaller town, rural areas • include households from African diaspora populations, and households with older (aged over 60 years) members

  5. Analysis Method 1: Content analysis of verbatim transcription of interviews Method2: An analysis of whether “their households” described by respondents, would be represented differently if standard survey household definitions were applied. Identification of ambiguous membership by respondents

  6. 4 common themes: UK & France #1. People who live temporarily with others • Often as a result of a critical change e.g.: divorce Sofa surfers / Surfers de canapes #2. Children who are cared for by multiple households • Joint custody from divorced/ separated parents • Care provided by grandparents #3 Living apart together (LAT) couples #4 Concealed households / (Illegal) migrants

  7. #1 Sofa surfers

  8. Liz: Not in the census Liz’s sister’s house - Oxfordshire Liz’s mother’s house - Hertfordshire Most weekends Liz Liz’s friend’s house Liz stayed there on census night Friend had already completed the online census

  9. #2. Children who are cared for by multiple households

  10. TO ADD? Use the e.g. of the survey which allows people to be counted in different HHs? I cant find it anywhere I am afraid (dupont and their son)

  11. #3 Living apart together (LAT) « I live withmyhusband and mydaughter. He has anotherwifewholivestwo blocks away and two boys. He eats and sleepshere more oftenbecause I amlessquarrelsome… » Bintou, interviewed in France, de facto polygamous union

  12. LAT “..because with owner occupation on the increase and also inheritance and also the way that divorce and the just the way we’re living our lives and migration and mobility, so we tends to enter our 30s, 40s and 50s and we experience divorce and separation. And then we re-partner and there are complex issues there that because of inheritance issues people retain their individual homes and also because you’re not quite sure what’s going to happen with that relationship” Academic demographer, UK

  13. Michel LAT Michel (Rural area): « Ecoutez, je ne suis pas en ménage. Depuis la mort de ma femme, je vis seul ici…j’ai par contre ma compagne qui vit à 5 km de mon village qui vient…on a une partie de vie commune mais chacun habite dans sa propre maison.» « Listen, I’mnot ‘en ménage’ [living withsomeone]. Sincemywifedied, I have been living herealone…mypartnerlives 5km frommyvillage doessometimes come over… weshare a part of our life, but each one live in hisown house »

  14. #4 Illegal migrants : “concealed” households

  15. “I officially live in a [collective household] with other migrant workers, but in fact, I sleep at my wife’s and this is where I receive my private mail. My official papers are shared with a friend who stays at the foyer” Seydou, illegal migrant from Senegal, interviewed in Paris

  16. And finally, a methodological note… • What are the implications for data on households as more interviews are conducted by phone or online? • No visual checks • No “hunches”

  17. Conclusions • Some households are definitely under enumerated in the census (‘sofa surfers’, ‘beds in sheds’ may even disappear…) • Others may be more enumerated, such as LATs and (step)-children • Perhaps, regardless of how the questions and definitions are applied it is almost certain that they will not be well captured • www.householdsurvey.info

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