BBC
launches nationwide singles survey
40 per cent of households in the country will consist of just
one person by the end of this decade, it is estimated.
What sort of Britain will that be? Will we become a nation of anxious
unmarrieds or liberated singletons?
The BBC's Special Features Unit - alongside local and national radio
services and BBCi Where I Live websites - is setting out to reflect
single life in 2002.
The public is being asked to tell the BBC what being single means
to them in the BBC Going Solo survey at www.bbc.co.uk/goingsolo.
How do people feel about being single in 2002? So often being single
is portrayed negatively, but there are legions of people who are
single, sorted and happily ignoring the lure of coupledom.
Britain
towards 2010, a report three years ago by Professor Richard Scase
of the University of Kent, suggested that single people will be
leading very different lives - and that the divide between men and
women's lifestyles will be even more strongly marked.
This survey aims to find out if men and women really do react differently
to being single after long relationships.
Do women fare better on their own? Do men really like their freedom
when they get it?
The survey results will be announced on 14 October at the start
of a week of programming across the whole of BBC Local Radio.
Going
Solo will be a fresh portrayal of adult life in the 21st Century.
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