Book Description: This text provides up-to-date information on a wide range of socio-demographic topics, aiming to provide a comprehensive picture of how we live, and the social changes we are experiencing in Britain. In addition to those topics covered by the General Household Survey each year - population characteristics, households and families, marriage, cohabitation and fertiltiy, employment, education, health, pensions and housing - the report updates information on contraception, dental health, hearing and private medical insurance, subjects which have been included in selected years only.