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POV10: People in Families by Number of Working Family Members and Family Structure: 2008

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2009 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

(Numbers in thousands)

  People in families (total) (2) People in married-couple families (11) People in families with a male householder, no wife present People in families with a female householder, no husband present
All income levels Below 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6) All income levels Below 100% of poverty (5) Percentage below 100% of poverty (6)

White alone
 
People in families, total (2) 		197,763 18,558 9.4 159,476 9,788 6.1 11,277 1,429 12.7 27,010 7,340 27.2
 
In families with no workers (16) 		20,912 5,769 27.6 15,384 2,303 15.0 1,102 552 50.1 4,426 2,914 65.8
In families with at least one worker (16) 176,851 12,789 7.2 144,092 7,485 5.2 10,175 877 8.6 22,584 4,426 19.6
      Only one working family member 57,843 9,411 16.3 38,909 5,023 12.9 5,129 725 14.1 13,805 3,664 26.5
      Two or more working family members 119,008 3,378 2.8 105,183 2,462 2.3 5,046 152 3.0 8,779 763 8.7
 
In families with no members working full-time
  year-round (FTYR) (16) 		48,455 12,590 26.0 33,349 5,489 16.5 3,475 1,149 33.1 11,632 5,952 51.2
      No part-time or part-year workers 20,912 5,769 27.6 15,384 2,303 15.0 1,102 552 50.1 4,426 2,914 65.8
      At least one part-time or part-year worker 27,543 6,821 24.8 17,965 3,185 17.7 2,373 597 25.1 7,205 3,038 42.2
          One part-time or part-year worker 16,851 5,192 30.8 9,579 2,105 22.0 1,626 506 31.1 5,646 2,580 45.7
          Two or more part-time or part-year workers 10,693 1,629 15.2 8,386 1,080 12.9 747 90 12.1 1,560 458 29.4
In families with at least one member who
  worked FTYR (16) 		149,308 5,968 4.0 126,127 4,300 3.4 7,802 280 3.6 15,378 1,388 9.0
      One full-time year-round worker 89,177 5,526 6.2 71,589 3,916 5.5 5,412 267 4.9 12,176 1,343 11.0
          One FTYR and no part-time or part-year
              workers 		40,992 4,220 10.3 29,331 2,918 9.9 3,503 218 6.2 8,159 1,083 13.3
          One FTYR and at least one part-time
              or part-year worker 		48,185 1,307 2.7 42,258 998 2.4 1,910 49 2.5 4,017 260 6.5
      Two or more full-time year-round workers 60,130 442 0.7 54,538 384 0.7 2,390 13 0.6 3,202 45 1.4
          Two or more FTYR and no part-time or
              part-year workers 		45,089 349 0.8 41,031 294 0.7 1,755 13 0.8 2,303 42 1.8
          Two or more FTYR and at least one
              part-time or part-year worker 		15,041 94 0.6 13,507 90 0.7 635 0 0.0 899 3 0.4
 
In families with part-time or part-year workers (16) 		90,769 8,221 9.1 73,730 4,274 5.8 4,918 645 13.1 12,122 3,301 27.2
      One part-time or part-year worker 65,889 6,267 9.5 52,940 2,988 5.6 3,530 545 15.4 9,419 2,734 29.0
      Two or more part-time or part-year workers 24,880 1,953 7.9 20,790 1,286 6.2 1,388 100 7.2 2,703 567 21.0

Poverty Footnotes

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