Census 2000 Report On Married & Unmarried Couples.
February 19, 2003
The Census Bureau released a Census 2000 report on married and unmarried-couple households.
The Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households: 2000 report by Tavia Simmons and Martin O’Connell, marks the first time the Census Bureau has issued a census report on unmarried partners. In 1990, “unmarried partner” was added as an option to the census question on household relationship.
The report and supplementary tables on the Internet show numbers of married-couple households for 2000, as well as unmarried-partner households consisting of two people of the opposite sex and of two people of the same sex.
It also shows data on residential and geographical variations in demographic characteristics for the four types of households, such as differences in the sex of the householder (the person in whose name the housing unit was owned or rented), the prevalence of mixed-race couples and partners, as well as differences in the ages of the couples or partners in the various types of households.
A color-coded, thematic map of the United States shows the percentages of unmarried- partner households by county.
To view report and tables CLICK below (Adobe Acrobat reader required):
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-5.pdf
To view supplementary tables CLICK below:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/pio-phc-t19.html
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