Table 1.6
Age and Sex of Head of Household1 1983 to 2007-08
All Households													Percentages
Age	1983	1991-92	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
All
16-21	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1
22-44	36	40	40	38	38	39	40	40	39	39	38	39	38
45-64	34	32	33	34	35	34	34	35	35	36	36	36	35
65-74	19	17	15	15	15	14	14	12	14	13	14	13	15
75+	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	12	10	11	11	11	12
Average age	52.25	50.70	50.64	51.68	51.52	51.21	51.03	50.98	50.85	51.12	51.55	51.21	51.92
Base=100% (All HoHs)	2,940	3,107	3,024	2,809	3,042	2,800	2,805	2,782	2,718	2,772	2,594	2,656	2,562
Males
16-21	1	1	1	1	<1	<1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
22-44	43	44	43	40	40	40	41	42	40	38	39	38	38
45-64	35	35	37	39	39	39	38	38	40	40	39	40	37
65-74	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	11	13	13	13	13	15
75+	6	6	7	8	8	7	7	9	7	8	8	8	9
Average age	49.06	48.51	49.02	50.46	50.41	50.03	50.10	49.80	49.91	50.71	50.68	50.95	51.34
Base=100% (Male HoHs)	2,256	2,279	2,187	1,981	2,208	1,963	1,983	1,940	1,877	1,939	1,731	1,711	1,707
Females
16-21	1	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	2	1
22-44	13	27	33	33	35	36	38	35	37	39	35	40	37
45-64	30	23	23	24	23	23	22	28	25	27	29	30	29
65-74	33	25	21	22	18	16	17	15	18	13	15	11	13
75+	23	21	20	18	21	22	20	19	17	18	18	17	19
Average age	62.77	56.73	54.89	54.61	54.43	53.98	53.28	53.71	52.94	52.05	53.30	51.67	53.08
Base=100% (Female HoHs)	684	828	837	828	834	837	822	842	841	833	863	945	855
							Source: Continuous Household Survey
Notes:
<1 is equivalent to less than 1
1In 2006-07 CHS replaced Head of Household with Household Reference Person
The Household Reference Person must by definition be a member of the household, and is the person (in order of precedence)
who owns the household accommodation or is legally responsible for the rent or has the responsibility for the accommodation
If there is more than one person in whose name the accommodation is owned or rented then the HRP is:
The person with the highest income; Where incomes are the same,the HRP is the eldest person