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Decline in Average Household Size, 2000-2010, in persons per household (fig. 5) Tibetan Aut. Region (TAR) 2000 6.8 persons 2010 4.2 persons Gansu Province 2000 4.7 persons - 2010 3.5 persons Qinghai Province 2000 5.3 persons 2010 3.5 persons Sichuan Province - 2000 3.9 persons - 2010 2.9 persons Yunnan Province 2000 4.6 persons 2010 3.5 persons The average Tibetan household in the TAR shrank from 7 to 4 people in just ten years. The rapidly shrinking household size, most evident in the TAR, is a major trend tied to urbanization and the one-child family policy in the PRC. Another sign of urbanization is the dramatic decrease in average household sizes for all five provinces with large Tibetan populations. In the TAR, it shrank from 6.78 persons in 2000 to 4.23 persons in 2010. In Tibetan rural and nomadic areas, the family is a "basic economic unit" that needs enough members to carry out essential activities in livestock care, agriculture, trade, and domestic labor. Thus the shrinking family size among Tibetans is a cause for concern.
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