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Table 8. Housing tenure of married and divorced individuals, by sex (‘000)
Source: Census and Statistics Department.
Table 9. Number of divorced individuals among households (aged 20 - 65) by income quartile
and by housing type
Source: Census and Statistics Department.
After 2000, the number of recent immigrants in PRH picked up as a
result of the accelerating pace of divorce and cross-border marriage (See
Figure 5). This was in part triggered by the liberalisation of PRH allocation
rules for recent immigrant households in 1998, which led to the rise in
number of recent immigrant households (with at least one member
having resided in Hong Kong for less than 20 years) living in PRH units from
129,000 in 1996 to 203,000 in 2011.
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