PEOPLE LIVING WITH PARENTS LONGER

nearly a third of men and a fifth of women aged 20 to 34 live with their parents, which equates to around 1.8 million men and 1.1 million women. Since 2001, the number of 20 to 34-year-olds living at the parental home has increased by nearly 300,000. Part of the reason for this increase may be that more young adults are continuing their studies after compulsory education. Another factor may be that the unemployment rate is higher for people aged 16 to 24 than for older people. According to a Eurobarometer survey in 2007, the most common reasons given by young adults in Europe for why young people live with their parents were that they couldn’t afford to move out or that there wasn’t enough affordable housing available