Table 2.

Households by structure categories, urban and rural areas, Cambodia, 1998,2000, and 2005 (per cent)

	Rural			Urban			Country
Household type	1998	2000	2005	1998	2000	2005	1998	2000	2005
Isolated	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.6
Nuclear	59.1	67.8	63.0	44.1	54.2	51.1	56.8	65.6	61.1
Women alone with children	9.7	12.2	12.1	8.6	13.3	11.0	9.5	12.4	11.9
Men alone with children	1.3	1.8	1.9	1.2	1.7	1.5	1.3	1.7	1.9
Extended	20.6	12.7	15.1	31.6	16.1	18.8	22.3	13.2	15.6
Co-resident sibling	2.6	1.0	0.9	5.0	2.3	2.2	3.0	1.2	1.1
Other	6.4	4.3	6.6	8.6	12.2	14.9	6.8	5.6	7.8
N (households)	184,670	10,419	11,142	31,531	1,817	3,101	1,141,254	12,236	14,243

Sources: Author’s calculations from the 1998 Census and the 2000 and 2005 Cambodian DHS data files.