The composition of a household including factors such as its size, age, sex, marital status and education of its members, are crucial in determining the roles and status of women and men within it. During the past three decades, household size has gradually decreased mainly because of the decline in fertility. This implies that, to some extent, the burden of taking care of a large number of household members has been reduced for women. Average household size, 1965-2000 Household Structure Nuclear family households constitute the bulk of the households in Thailand. A single person household or a person residing with non-related person.
Women tend to get married at an earlier age than men, and are more likely to be widowed.
Compared to men, there was nearly proportion married and a smaller proportion single among women in 1990 and 1995. However, the percentage of married women, as well as married men tend to increase slightly with a decrease in the proportion of the single persons. More women than men under age 30 were married, but at aged 30 and above, a higher percentage of men than women remained married. Household Head Women are not usually enumerated as heads of households unless they are either living alone or there are no adult men in the households. Only about 24 percent of the households in Thailand are headed by women, and over half of the women household heads are widowed.