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Working Paper

Who Had Pandemic Babies? Exploring the Profiles of Mothers with a Recent Birth Using ACS Data

April 14, 2023

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.

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Working Paper

An Assessment of the June 2020 CPS Fertility Supplement

January 16, 2023

The purpose of this paper is to examine the quality of the June 2020 CPS Fertility Supplement.

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Working Paper

Leave Usage Following a First Birth Among Men in the United States

April 06, 2022

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.

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Working Paper

Evaluation of the Reintroduced Parental Leave Content in the 2019 SIPP

January 27, 2022

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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Working Paper

Parenthood and Partnerships Among Young Adults

August 10, 2021

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

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Working Paper

Fathering Across Households

April 12, 2019

This paper uses a large, nationally representative dataset to examine the complexities of men’s fathering of minor children.

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Working Paper

Family Complexity and Changing Household Dynamics

November 19, 2017

In this paper, newly available measures of family and residential dynamics are presented, and the implications for people and households are discussed.

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Working Paper

Multiple Partner Fertility in the US: A Demographic Portrait

October 10, 2017

Paper showing SIPP data on Multiple Partner Fertility in the United States.

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Working Paper

Racial Identity and Fertility Outcomes among Hispanic Origin Groups

April 2017

Examines whether fertility varies by reported race of Hispanic origin women & the relationship of social and demographic characteristics on recent fertility.

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Working Paper

Multiple Partner Fertility in the US: A Demographic Portrait

April 2017

Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in April 2017.

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Working Paper

Shared and Non-Shared Fertility Among Empty Nesters

April 2017

Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in April 2017.

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Working Paper

Addressing Data Collection Errors in the Fertility Question in the ACS

August 2016

In recent years, a few geographic areas in the American Community Survey (ACS) data had unusually high percentages of women.

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Working Paper

The Occupational Attainment of Mid-Career Childless Women, 1980-2012

July 2016

This paper examines the labor market outcomes of childless women, focusing on occupational attainment over time.

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Working Paper

Impact of Methodological Changes on Estimates of Childlessness

April 2015

The June 2012 Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement data showed a significant decrease from 2010 in the percent of childless women aged 35 to 44.

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Working Paper

Health Statistics Handouts for Health Datapalooza 2014

June 2014

Handouts about Health Statistics, Disability and Fertility, Health Care Industries, Health Insurance, HIV/AIDS, and Small Area Health Insurance Estimates.

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Working Paper

Multiplied Disadvantage: Multiple Partner Fertility

2014

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Working Paper

Relationship Status at First Birth for Women Age 15–50

April 11, 2013

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Working Paper

Father's Data

January 2007

Research on fathers and fatherhood was almost nonexistent only a few years ago, but now the interest and availability of data is growing rapidly.

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Working Paper

Estimates About Fertility and Grandparents

2006

This report first compares estimates of the number of women who gave birth in the 12 months preceding the survey date.

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Working Paper

Indicators of Marriage and Fertility in the U.S.

January 2005

Trends in marriage, cohabitation and fertility have all contributed to changing family structure in the United States.

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Working Paper

Estimates about Fertility & Grandparents: ACS, CPS, C2SS, Census 2000

January 01, 2004

This report compares national distributions based on data for two items: fertility and grandparents residing with their grandchildren.

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Working Paper

Accuracy of the U.S. Census Bureau National Population Projections

July 01, 2002

This paper evaluates the accuracy of Census Bureau population forecasts using an ex-post facto approach.

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Working Paper

Measuring Fertility Using the American Community Survey

March 29, 2001

Evaluation of fertility data from 1999 American Community Survey data from four selected sites.

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Working Paper

Methodology and Assumptions for the Population Projections: 1999-2100

January 13, 2000

This working paper discusses the methodology and assumptions used to develop the recently released projections of the population of US from 1999 to 2100.

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Working Paper

Is Childlessness Among American Women on the Rise?

May 1999

Examines the trends in childlessness from 1980 to 1998 and identifies which socioeconomic groups have experienced the most significant changes.

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Working Paper

Timing of First Births: 1930-34 to 1990-94

May 1998

The purposes of this research is to examine the trend in the marital status of women at the time of their first birth.

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Working Paper

Trends in Marital Status of U.S. Women at First Birth: 1930 to 1994

March 1998

This paper reports on the trend of premarital childbearing amoung U.S. women.

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Working Paper

Fertility of American Men

March 1996

This paper examines the quality of the fertility data among men and women and the characteristics of the men who did not respond to the question on fertility.

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Working Paper

Mothers Who Receive AFDC Payments

1995

In summer 1993, the Nation had 36 million mothers 15 to 44 years old; 3.8 million of them (10 percent) were receiving AFDC.

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Working Paper

Mothers Who Receive WIC Benefits

1995

In summer 1993, there were 36 million mothers 15 to 44 years old living in the United States.

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Working Paper

Mothers Who Receive Food Stamps

1995

This is the second in a series of three reports focusing on the fertility and childbearing patterns.

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Working Paper

Fertility of American Women: 1994 – Highlights

January 1994

Census Bureau research made available to others to encourage discussion on a range of topics. They have not undergone official review or the editorial process.

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Working Paper

Estimates of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing

January 1994

Census Bureau research made available to others to encourage discussion on a range of topics. They have not undergone official review or the editorial process.

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