The vast majority of the 72.1 million people under 18 years in the United States in 2000 lived in households (71.8 million, compared with 302,000 in group quarters). This report describes their social and economic characteristics and those of their parents, their householders, and the households they lived in, as well as their relationship to the householder. In this report, people under age 18 living in households are referred to as children. Since the breadth of Census 2000 allows analysis at several levels of geography, many of these characteristics are examined at the national, regional, and state levels. A closer look at characteristics across places of 100,000 or more population is included as well. Detailed data on characteristics of children will be available in PHC-T-30, “Characteristics of Children Under 18 Years, by Age, for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: 2000.”
Census 2000, special tabulation and Summary File 3