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  "dataset": "yth_demo_030",
  "original_label": "Estimated average age of young persons leaving the parental household",
  "title": "Malta is the exception: the EU home-leaving gender gap in 2025",
  "observation_year": 2025,
  "updated": "2026-04-16T23:00:00+0200",
  "unit": "Age in years; official Eurostat unit code AVG",
  "release_date": "2026-09-15",
  "selection": {
    "freq": "A",
    "unit": "AVG",
    "sex": [
      "F",
      "M"
    ],
    "time": "2025",
    "geo": [
      "EU27_2020",
      "BE",
      "BG",
      "CZ",
      "DK",
      "DE",
      "EE",
      "IE",
      "EL",
      "ES",
      "FR",
      "HR",
      "IT",
      "CY",
      "LV",
      "LT",
      "LU",
      "HU",
      "MT",
      "NL",
      "AT",
      "PL",
      "PT",
      "RO",
      "SI",
      "SK",
      "FI",
      "SE"
    ]
  },
  "definition": "Estimated age at which 50% of the population of each sex no longer live in a household with their parent(s). Based on EU-LFS co-residence status, ages 15–34; not an arithmetic mean of observed departure dates.",
  "official_description": "<p>The indicator represents the age at which 50 % of the population no longer live in a household with their parent(s) (Source: EU-LFS).</p>",
  "method": "Decode JSON-stat row-major dimensions by explicit category indices. Select the official EU27_2020 aggregate and exactly 27 EU member states. Difference = men age − women age, in years.",
  "sort": "EU aggregate separately first; countries by descending men-minus-women gap, then country name for ties.",
  "flags": "All 56 selected F/M observations are present and unflagged in this API snapshot. Other geographies and total-sex observations remain in the source extract but are excluded from the chart.",
  "rounding": "Source reports one decimal. Subtraction uses Decimal to avoid floating-point ordering artifacts. No further precision implied.",
  "claims": {
    "women_earlier_countries": 26,
    "eu_country_count": 27,
    "reversal": "Malta",
    "largest_gap": "Romania, 4.1 years",
    "EU_women": "25.5",
    "EU_men": "27.2"
  },
  "limitations": "Cross-sectional survey estimates, not longitudinal moving-out records. No significance claim or causal explanation. EU aggregate comes from Eurostat, not the unweighted country mean.",
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    "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/yth_demo_030/default/table?lang=en",
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  "id": "eu-home-leaving-gap",
  "chartAlt": "Dumbbell chart of all 27 EU countries and the official EU aggregate, 2025. Women are earlier in 26 countries. Malta: women 27.8, men 27.3. Romania has the largest gap: women 25.3, men 29.4. EU aggregate: women 25.5, men 27.2.",
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