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Stastical Bulletin Housing Series: Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation in Scotland 1987-88 to 1997-88: National and Local Authority Analyses: HSG/1999/3

Applicant households, by household type and local authority assessment, Scotland 1997-98	Table 18

Number

Local authority assessment	Household type									Total
	One person households				One parent households		Couple		Other household type
	Under18	18-24	25 to60/65	60/65 and over	Parent aged under 25	Parent aged25 or over	Without children	With children	Other household type
Total	4,000	7,500	13,100	1,200	3,100	8,900	1,700	3,100	600	43,100
Homeless
priority unintentional	1,600	900	2,000	500	1,500	4,200	400	1,100	200	12,300
priority intentional	200	100	300	100	100	300	100	200	-	1,400
non priority	300	4,300	7,300	100	100	200	400	100	100	12,900
Potentially homeless
priority unintentional	200	200	400	200	400	1,300	100	500	100	3,300
priority intentional	-	-	100	-	100	100	-	100	-	500
non priority	100	600	1,000	-	-	100	200	-	-	2,000
Neither homeless nor potentially homeless	800	600	1,000	200	500	1,500	200	700	100	5,800
Lost contact	800	700	1,000	100	400	1,200	200	400	100	4,900

Percentage

Local authority assessment	Household type									Total
	One person households				One parent households		Couple		Other household type
	Under18	18-24	25 to60/65	60/65 and over	Parent aged under 25	Parent aged25 or over	Without children	With children
Total	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*
Homeless
priority unintentional	39	12	15	43	50	47	23	35	34	29
priority intentional	5	2	2	6	4	3	3	8	3	3
non priority	8	58	56	8	2	2	27	2	11	30
Potentially homeless
priority unintentional	4	3	3	13	14	14	9	14	14	8
priority intentional	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	4	3	1
non priority	2	8	8	1	-	1	12	1	6	5
Neither homeless nor potentially homeless	21	8	8	17	16	17	15	23	13	13
Lost contact	20	9	8	11	12	14	10	12	16	11

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