Average age upon leaving the parental home

The average age of young people aged 14 to 39 who were still living at their parents’ home at the beginning of the year and were no longer living there at the end of the same year. The calculation takes into account the age structure (is there a relatively large or small number of young people of a particular age?) by weighting the number of young people leaving their parents’ home at a certain age per thousand young people of the same age. The results presented differ from those in other CBS publications, in which the average age is calculated using a ‘life table’. For that method, the probability of leaving the parental home by age is applied to a fictitious population of one thousand inhabitants. The latter method is more sensitive to the effect of young people deciding to postpone leaving home and to the subsequent catch-up effect in later years.