LONDON, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of homes in Britain where nobody has a job has fallen to its lowest level in years, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed Wednesday.
But the ONS figures still show that 1.2 million children are living in houses where no working age adults (aged 16 to 64 years) are in jobs.
It means 9.6 percent of children are in households where nobody works, half the level it was in 1996 when 19.8 percent of kids lived in homes without any wage earners.
Children in single-parent families were more likely to be living in workless households (33.4 percent) than children living in couple households (3.5 percent), added ONS.
ONS said single-parent families accounted for 68.8 percent of all children in workless households in Britain.
Over the past year, the number of children living in households where no adults of working age had ever had a job increased by 6,000 to 210,000 accounting for 1.7 percent of all children.
