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Families and Households Working Papers

Working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics. They have not undergone a review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications.

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Working Paper
2022 American Community Survey Content Test: Household Roster
Results from the 2022 ACS Content Test of the questions about household roster.


Working Paper
Age Differences Among Coresidential Partners
This poster uses the 2021 1yr ACS data to examine age gaps of coresidential partners.


Working Paper
Coresidence of Grandparents and Grandchildren and COVID-19
This presentation examines the relationship between excess mortality due to COVID-19 and grandparents living with and raising grandchildren.


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Geographic Variations in Black-White Interracial and Cohabiting Households and Change Over Time
This study focuses on interracial relationships between non-Hispanic Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites.


Working Paper
Marital and Fertility Histories’ Association With Financial Resources
Most women and men aged 45 and older ever married before they had child(ren).


Working Paper
Implementation of the Revised Relationship to Householder Item
This paper evaluates the results of the implementation of the updated relationship to householder item.


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2022 ACS Content Test: Round 3 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from Round 3 of cognitive testing, which gathered feedback from individuals in groups quarters facilities and Puerto Rico.


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2022 ACS Content Test: Round 1 and Round 2 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from two rounds of cognitive testing for the 2022 ACS Content Test.


Working Paper
The New Great Migration and Black Marriage Trends in the South
Using data from the ACS, this study examines whether the percentage of college-educated Black adults in southern MSAs is associated with marriage prevalence.


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Parental Veteran Status and Poverty among U.S. Children
This poster uses the 2019 CPS ASEC to examine how coresidence with a veteran parent is associated with the chances that children live in or near poverty.


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Evaluation of the Reintroduced Parental Leave Content in the 2019 SIPP
The purpose of this paper is to note basic distributions and corresponding allocation rates for the parental leave content in 2019.


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Parenthood and Partnerships Among Young Adults
This paper uses the 2018 SIPP to analyze the socioeconomic characteristics, living arrangements, and parental involvement patterns of parents 15-22 years old.


Working Paper
Child Well-Being and Transitions in the Presence of Parents
Study uses 2018 SIPP data to address children’s selection into family instability & analyze the relationship between parental transitions & child well-being.


Working Paper
Risk of Parental Death Across the Life Course
This paper estimates the risk of parental death across the life course using data from the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).


Working Paper
Synthesizing Familial Linkages for Privacy in Microdata
Synthetic data has become a successful way to provide external researchers a chance to conduct a wide variety of analyses on microdata.


Working Paper
Family Complexity and Child Well-Being
Poster presentation on family complexity and child well-being, presented at the 2019 Southern Demographic Association meeting.


Working Paper
Updates to Collection and Editing of Household Relationship Measures
The paper details the new data collection and processing of household data in the Current Population Survey


Working Paper
Puerto Rican-Origin Children’s Living Arrangements
This research examines the ties among poverty, family migration and living arrangements of Puerto Rican-origin children living in PR and the US.


Working Paper
The Changing Demographics of Unmarried Partners, 1996-2017
This poster examines the changing demographic characteristics of unmarried partners from 1996 to 2017.


Working Paper
The Opioid Prescribing Rate and Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
This poster examines the relationship between the opioid prescribing rate and grandparents raising grandchildren.


Working Paper
Changes to Household Data in CPS
This presentation details new changes to household data in CPS, specifically the noted improvement in measuring same-sex families and greater family diversity.


Working Paper
Household and Community Characteristics and Children's Acculturation
The American Community Survey is used to explore the associations of household and community characteristics with children’s linguistic acculturation.


Working Paper
The Link Between Socioeconomic Factors and Parental Mortality
In this paper, we use Wave 1 of the 2014 SIPP panel to evaluate whether linkages exist between socioeconomic factors and the timing of parental loss.


Working Paper
Gender, Work Context and Nonstandard Work Schedules Among Parents
This paper uses SIPP 2014 to analyze parents working a nonstandard schedule.


Working Paper
How husbands and wives report their earnings when she earns more
This paper compares the earnings reported for husbands and wives in the CPS with their “true” earnings from administrative income-tax records.


Working Paper
Puerto Rican-Origin Children’s Living Arrangements
This poster examines family, social and demographic characteristics of Puerto Rican-origin children in Puerto Rico and the United States in 2006 and 2015.


Working Paper
Economic Security and Marriage Rates for Young Adults
Examines the role of socioeconomic characteristics (e.g., labor force participation, wages, poverty, and housing) on the marriage rates of young adults.


Working Paper
Examining Change in Interracial/Interethnic Married-Couple Households
This poster examines geographic change in the prevalence of interracial and interethnic married-couple households from 2000 to 2012-2016.


Working Paper
Family and Household Composition After the Great Recession
This poster examines the relationship between the 100 most populous metropolitan statistical areas’ economic well-being and family and household measures.


Working Paper
Interracial and Inter-ethnic Marriage and Self-Rated Health
Study explores the associations between partner race/ethnicity and health in the U.S. using the Survey of Income and Program Participation.


Working Paper
Family Complexity and Changing Household Dynamics
In this paper, newly available measures of family and residential dynamics are presented, and the implications for people and households are discussed.


Working Paper
Parents Working Nonstandard Schedules: Who’s Burning the Midnight Oil?
This poster uses SIPP 2014, Wave 1 to analyze families in which a parent works a nonstandard schedule.


Working Paper
2016 American Community Survey Content Test: Class of Worker
Results from the 2016 ACS Content Test of the questions about Class of Worker and Employer Name.


Working Paper
Multiple Partner Fertility in the US: A Demographic Portrait
Paper showing SIPP data on Multiple Partner Fertility in the United States.


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2016 American Community Survey Content Test: Health Insurance
Results from the 2016 ACS Content Test of the questions about Health Insurance.


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2016 American Community Survey Content Test: Retirement Income
Results from the 2016 ACS Content Test of the question about Retirement Income.

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