When you look at what has happened since the recession in 2008, the decline in birth was pretty dramatic, but it was all among women under age 35.
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Race/ethnic intermarriage trends, 2008-2018
Rising, with gender differences. Since 2008 the American Community Survey has been asking respondents whether they got married in the previous 12 months. Using the race/ethnicity of spouses (when they are living together), you can estimate the proportion of new marriages that cross racial/ethnic lines. Defining such "intermarriage" is not as simple as it sounds.…
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Framing social class with sample selection
Venn diagrams to help people think about for screening subjects for social class status.
The COVID-19 epidemic in rural U.S. counties
The rural epidemic is driven by outbreaks in counties with prisons, meat and poultry, and nursing homes. They're also disproportionately Hispanic, American Indian, and Black.
The arriving divorce decline
A 3 percent drop in the refined divorce rate for 2018.
Family diversity, new normal
Family diversity is not just a buzzword (although it is that), and it's not just the recognition of diversity that always existed (although it is that).
The changing household age range, U.S. 1900-2017
One way to understand daily interaction, and intergenerational resource exchange, is just to look at the structure of households. This doesn't tell you everything that goes on in households, but it gives some strong clues. And we can measure it going back more than a century, thanks to IPUMS.org's collection of Census microdata. In 1900,…
Continue reading ➞ The changing household age range, U.S. 1900-2017
White children are 2.7-times more likely than Black children to live with a parent who has a PhD
Producing half a sentence for NYTimes essay.
The rise of Jewish boys’ names in the US
A growing (tiny) proportion of US kids are speaking Yiddish at home, too.
Decadally-biased marriage recall in the American Community Survey
Science advances by the invention of new terms to describe data problems. The DBMR in the ACS is 110.8.
Family Inequality 