The database shown at “Digitalarkivet” under the heading “Ekstraskatt 1762: Larvik m/Langest. og Sandefj[1].” contains 217 individuals in a total of 70 households of varying size.
Most of the inhabitants were women or, to be precise, female - 131 – and the number of male persons was only 86; quite unbalanced, in other words.
Of the 70 households 18, or 26%, were headed by women, the other 74% by men. The proportion of the population in female headed households was 23.9%; that of male headed households 76 %: the latter were only about 10% larger, on average, in terms of numbers of members.
Although one tends to believe that households, in the past, were rather large, the ones found in this sample are not particularly so:
| Number of Household Members | Number of Households |
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 21 |
| 3 | 25 |
| 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 6 |
| 6 | 5 |
In other words, nearly two thirds of the households contained 2 or three people; only 15 % contain 5 or six people. 74% of the population lived in households with 2-4 members: not exactly one’s idea of a traditional, extended family!
[1] Compiled by Kristian Hunskaar; see http://www.digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=xtr62lar&metanr=2297
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