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Families & Living Arrangements Working Papers
Families & Living Arrangements 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
An Exploratory Analysis of Mate Selection Among the Black Multiracial Population in the United States: 2008-2012 and 2018-2022
Mate selection among the multiracial population is of interest to researchers as this group is projected to grow steadily over the next several decades.
Working Paper
Cohort Differences in Multiple Partner Fertility
This research examines the prevalence of MPF across birth cohorts using the SIPP.
Working Paper
Marriage Then Carriage? Marital and Fertility Patterns Among Women by Birth Cohort
This research includes women born 1940 to 1979 and select comparisons will be made by ten-year birth cohorts, as well as by race and Hispanic origin.
Income and Poverty
Singles' Safety Net in the United States
This paper examines social safety net participation of single adults in the United States using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Working Paper
A Test of Alternative Child Care Expense Capping in the Supplemental Poverty Measure
This paper explores implementation of a recommended change to capping child care expenses in the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) for key groups of parents.
Working Paper
Young Adult Disability Status and Living in a Parental Home
Young adults’ health difficulties linked to living in a parental home in 2010 and 2022.
Working Paper
Who Are American Indian and Alaska Native Grandparents?
This poster examines the characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native grandparents and their coresident grandchildren using data from the 2018–2022 ACS.
Working Paper
Examining the Rise in Childhood Disability
This paper uses 2008-2019 ACS data to examine differences in disability rates between immigrant and non-immigrant children, and differences by race/ethnicity.
Working Paper
2022 American Community Survey Content Test: Household Roster
Results from the 2022 ACS Content Test of the questions about household roster.
Health
The Demographics of Disability in the Family
This study describes the prevalence and characteristics of disability in the family, as well as implications of disability for family financial well-being.
Working Paper
Age Differences Among Coresidential Partners
This poster uses the 2021 1yr ACS data to examine age gaps of coresidential partners.
Working Paper
It’s Family Time! Parent-Child Interactions by Race and Ethnicity
Frequent parent-child dinners, outings and reading varied by race and ethnicity, socioeconomic characteristics, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working Paper
Who Had Pandemic Babies? Exploring the Profiles of Mothers with a Recent Birth Using ACS Data
This paper uses American Community Survey data to explore the characteristics of mothers with recent births before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Families and Living Arrangements
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
An Assessment of the June 2020 CPS Fertility Supplement
The purpose of this paper is to examine the quality of the June 2020 CPS Fertility Supplement.
Working Paper
Family Pies: Effects of Family Resource Shares in Childhood
Effects of birth order on various outcomes have been extensively studied in both life sciences and social sciences.
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.
Working Paper
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.
Working Paper
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.
Health
Leave Usage Following a First Birth Among Men in the United States
This paper uses SIPP data to describe patterns of leave usage among men over time and model factors associated with the likelihood of men to take leave.
Working Paper
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.
Working Paper
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.
Working Paper
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
The Value Added of a Multidimensional Deprivation Index
The value of a multidimensional deprivation index over and above income poverty measures is explored.
Working Paper
Child Care Subsidies and the Labor Force Outcomes for Working Married Mothers
Using Census data and administrative records, this study finds that child care subsidies improve labor force outcomes for working married mothers.
Working Paper
His State or Her State? Married Couples' States of Birth and Current Residence: 1900-2018
This poster examines trends in the states of birth and current residence of married couples from 1900-2018.
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
Statistical Language Performance at the U.S. Census Bureau
This paper compares the runtime of different programming languages while performing basic data management tasks and presents information on the wide variations.
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.
Families and Living Arrangements
Family Complexity and Child Well-Being
Poster presentation on family complexity and child well-being, presented at the 2019 Southern Demographic Association meeting.
Families and Living Arrangements
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
The Chinese Diaspora: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Trends
This working paper examines key demographic elements of the global Chinese diaspora.
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