Definition

This indicator reports the number and percentage of families with related children with no employed parent. This includes married-couple and single-parent families and includes those who are not in the labor force and those who are unemployed. Please note this indicator reports number of families with related children with no employed parent, not number of children with no employed parent.

The total number of families with children with no employed parent is summed from the totals for families with children, across the family types described above. These totals are divided by the total number of families with related children to calculate the percentage of families with children and no employed parent.
The indicator "Families with Children and No Employed Parent" includes married-couple families where both the husband and wife are unemployed; married-couple families where the husband is unemployed and the wife is not in the labor force; married-couple families where the husband is not in the labor force and the wife is unemployed; married-couple families where both the husband and wife are not in the labor force; male householder families with no wife present where the householder is unemployed; male householder families with no wife present where the householder is not in the labor force; female householder families with no husband present where the householder is unemployed; and female householder families with no husband present where the householder is not in the labor force.

As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population 16 years and older is divided into two categories: in the labor force or not in the labor force. People who have never worked or who are retired are not in the labor force. People who are not currently working but have recently and would like to work are considered in the labor force, but unemployed.

Data Source

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates 2005-2009, 2007-2011, 2009-2013, 2011-2015, 2013-2017, 2015-2019, 2016-2020, 2017-2021, and 2018-2022. Table B23007.

Notes

Counts of five or fewer – excluding zero – are suppressed, as are percentages derived from suppressed counts.

NA: Not Available
S: Data Suppressed

Last Updated

2024-10