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POV15: Families With Related Children Under 18 by Householder's Work Experience 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)

  Families (total) (10) Married-couple families (11) Families with a male householder, no wife present 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)

Black alone (12)
Families with related children under 18 years, total (13)
(Counts of families are obtained
by counting the householder from each family.) 		5,765 1,709 29.6 2,208 212 9.6 438 110 25.1 3,119 1,387 44.5
 
Families with a householder who did not work (16) 		1,248 806 64.6 347 110 31.9 107 61 56.9 795 635 79.9
Families with a working householder (16) 4,517 902 20.0 1,862 101 5.4 331 49 14.7 2,324 752 32.4
      Working householder and no other workers 2,451 789 32.2 280 44 15.7 266 47 17.5 1,905 699 36.7
      Working householder and at least one
              other worker 		2,066 113 5.5 1,582 57 3.6 65 2 (B) 419 53 12.7
          Householder plus one other worker 1,703 105 6.2 1,308 53 4.1 53 2 (B) 342 50 14.5
          Householder plus two or more other workers 363 8 2.1 274 4 1.4 12 0 (B) 77 4 4.7
 
Families with a householder who worked
  full-time year-round (FTYR) (16) 		3,134 278 8.9 1,443 44 3.1 234 16 7.0 1,457 217 14.9
      Householder FTYR and no other workers 1,552 233 15.0 213 24 11.1 197 15 7.4 1,142 194 17.0
      Householder FTYR and at least one
              other worker 		1,583 46 2.9 1,230 21 1.7 37 2 (B) 315 23 7.3
          Householder FTYR plus at least one other
              FTYR worker, no part-time or part-year 		978 11 1.1 837 7 0.8 20 2 (B) 121 2 1.9
          Householder FTYR plus at least one
              part-time or part-year, no FTYR 		441 35 7.9 257 14 5.5 15 0 (B) 170 21 12.1
          Householder FTYR with both FTYR and a
              part-time or part-year worker 		163 0 0.0 136 0 0.0 3 0 (B) 24 0 (B)
 
Both husband and wife worked (11), (16) 		1,524 52 3.4 1,524 52 3.4 (N/A) (N/A) (X) (N/A) (N/A) (X)
Wife worked, husband did not work 161 32 19.6 161 32 19.6 (N/A) (N/A) (X) (N/A) (N/A) (X)
Husband worked, wife did not work 418 67 15.9 418 67 15.9 (N/A) (N/A) (X) (N/A) (N/A) (X)
 
Both husband and wife FTYR (11), (16) 		939 6 0.6 939 6 0.6 (N/A) (N/A) (X) (N/A) (N/A) (X)
Wife FTYR, husband not FTYR 277 30 10.8 277 30 10.8 (N/A) (N/A) (X) (N/A) (N/A) (X)
Husband FTYR, wife not FTYR 660 53 8.1 660 53 8.1 (N/A) (N/A) (X) (N/A) (N/A) (X)

Poverty Footnotes

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