During 1980-2005, private household debt soared to £1.5tn, equal to total national income.
Her father is the cook for a private household in New York.
The coverage of the household survey is somewhat broader as it includes the self-employed, unpaid family workers and private household workers.
Private household choices -- where to put the family computer or video game console, how many television sets a household has -- can greatly affect the impact these entertainments have.
Among other things, determining household income would force employers to find out how much their employees' spouses make and even to track down certain private household expenses, like alimony payments.
The underlying weaknesses of the UK economy that led to the 2008 crash, notably excessive private household debt and structural imbalances accentuated by an over-valued exchange rate, are scarcely resolved.
The report found that one in 10 men and one in five women lived in a communal establishment, such as a care home, with the remaining people living in a private household.
"Should our expectations for stronger private household consumption and domestic demand as a whole not be fulfilled, we would change our forecasts accordingly," Mr. Trichet said in the interview.
(The household survey has a more expansive scope because it includes the self-employed, unpaid family workers, agricultural workers and private household workers, who are excluded by the establishment survey).
The observation unit is the private household without institutionalized households.
Private household plus government make the regional household.
