Maintainer

Sasha Cuerda

Denominator

Children living in families and subfamilies.

Description

Children in Single-parent Families reports the percent of children living in families that are headed by a single parent.

Dimensions

Year;Measure Type;Variable

Full Description Children are all persons under the age of 18 years, living in families, and related as children by birth, marriage, or adoption to the householder. Children living with married step-parents are not included. Single-parent families may include unmarried couples. The American Community Survey (ACS) collects these data from a sample of households on a rolling monthly basis. ACS aggregates samples into one-, three-, or five-year periods. At this time only state-level annual data are available on CTdata.org. Town-level data aggregated from the five-year datasets (considered to be more accurate for geographic areas that are the size of a county or smaller) can be produced using Census tables currently available on the Census website.

Latest Year Available

2013

Measure Type

Percent

Numerator

Children living in single-parent families.

Source

American Community Survey

Variable

All

Year

2007;2008;2009;2010;2011;2012;2013