The rituals are particularly important if the household has suffered a bereavement in the previous year.

Mr Archer said that households are suffering from a prolonged squeeze.

"On top of this, many households have suffered appreciably from the government's fiscal measures," said Mr Archer.

That's the reason middle-income households are suffering.

In short, over a 20-year span, the American household suffered a 30-minute-per-week loss of dusting, mopping and scrubbing.

When allowances were very late or very reduced, Elizabeth's household did not suffer for long.

In the past two years, households have suffered the tightest squeeze on living standards in around 80 years, according to the Bank of England's Governor.

But more often, our household suffers shopping emergencies.

Multidimensional poverty encompasses a range of deprivations that a household may suffer.

The poorest households suffered the most, and this led temporarily to both a levelling and an aggregate move downwards in Volga peasant society.