Digest of Education Statistics: 2005
Digest of Education Statistics: 2005

NCES 2006-030
June 2006


Table 19. Characteristics of families with own children under 18, by race/ethnicity and family structure: 2004

[In thousands]
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                                  |             |                                 Families with own children under 18                     |     Families with own    |    Families with own
                                  |             |_________________________________________________________________________________________|      children under 6    |     children under 3
                                  |             |             |          |            |                  Families with                    |__________________________|________________________
                                  |             |             |   Percent|            |___________________________________________________|             |            |           |
                                  |        Total|             |    of all|  Percentage|      1 child|   2 children| 3 children|  4 or more|             |  Percent of|           |  Percent of
Race and family characteristic    |     families|        Total|  families|distribution|     under 18|     under 18|   under 18|   under 18|        Total|all families|      Total|all families
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1                                 |            2|            3|         4|           5|            6|            7|          8|          9|           10|          11|         12|          13
__________________________________|_____________|_____________|__________|____________|_____________|_____________|___________|___________|_____________|____________|___________|____________
All races\1\ .....................|76,217(238.6)|35,944(180.7)|47.2(0.19)| 100.0  (†) |14,964(121.8)|13,696(116.9)|5,298(73.9)|1,985(45.5)|15,614(124.3)|  20.5(0.15)|8,954(95.4)|  11.7(0.12)
  Married-couple families ........|57,719(217.7)|25,793(156.4)|44.7(0.21)|  71.8(0.24)| 9,763 (99.4)|10,481(102.9)|4,073(64.9)|1,475(39.3)|11,711(108.5)|  20.3(0.17)|6,909(84.1)|  12.0(0.14)
  Families with male householder, |             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           | 
     no spouse present ...........| 4,716 (69.8)| 1,931 (44.9)|40.9(0.73)|   5.4(0.12)| 1,146 (34.6)|   550 (24.0)|  180(13.8)|   55 (7.6)|   766 (28.3)|  16.2(0.55)|  447(21.7)|   9.5(0.44)
  Families with female householder|             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
     no spouse present ...........|13,781(117.2)| 8,221 (91.5)|59.7(0.43)|  22.9(0.23)| 4,055 (64.8)| 2,665 (52.7)|1,046(33.1)|  455(21.9)| 3,136 (57.1)|  22.8(0.37)|1,597(40.9)|  11.6(0.28)
                                  |             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
White, non-Hispanic\2\ ...........|54,023(212.5)|23,040(148.7)|42.6(0.22)| 100.0  (†) | 9,808 (99.7)| 9,068 (96.0)|3,131(57.0)|1,033(32.9)| 9,475 (98.0)|  17.5(0.17)|5,539(75.5)|  10.3(0.13)
  Married-couple families ........|44,197(196.7)|17,961(132.7)|40.6(0.24)|  78.0(0.28)| 6,956 (84.4)| 7,446 (87.2)|2,654(52.6)|  905(30.8)| 7,822 (89.4)|  17.7(0.19)|4,704(69.7)|  10.6(0.15)
  Families with male householder, |             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
     no spouse present ...........| 2,711 (53.1)| 1,152 (34.7)|42.5(0.97)|   5.0(0.15)|   723 (27.5)|   320 (18.3)|   89 (9.7)|   20 (4.6)|   366 (19.6)|  13.5(0.67)|  194(14.3)|   7.2(0.51)
  Families with female householder|             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
     no spouse present ...........| 7,115 (85.3)| 3,927 (63.8)|55.2(0.60)|  17.0(0.25)| 2,129 (47.1)| 1,301 (36.9)|  388(20.2)|  109(10.7)| 1,287 (36.7)|  18.1(0.47)|  640(25.9)|   9.0(0.35)
                                  |             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
Black\2\ .........................| 8,912 (82.6)| 4,973 (64.9)|55.8(0.51)| 100.0  (†) | 2,134 (44.0)| 1,706 (39.5)|  747(26.4)|  386(19.1)| 2,108 (43.7)|  23.7(0.44)|1,109(32.1)|  12.4(0.34)
  Married-couple families ........| 4,146 (59.9)| 2,035 (43.0)|49.1(0.76)|  40.9(0.68)|   791 (27.2)|   764 (26.7)|  315(17.3)|  165(12.5)|   837 (28.0)|  20.2(0.61)|  428(20.1)|  10.3(0.46)
  Families with male householder, |             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
     no spouse present ...........|   782 (27.0)|   356 (18.3)|45.5(1.74)|   7.2(0.36)|   211 (14.1)|    98  (9.6)|   31 (5.4)|   15 (3.8)|   162 (12.4)|  20.7(1.41)|   95 (9.5)|  12.1(1.14)
  Families with female householder|             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
     no spouse present ...........| 3,984 (58.8)| 2,582 (48.1)|64.8(0.74)|  51.9(0.69)| 1,131 (32.4)|   845 (28.1)|  401(19.5)|  206(14.0)| 1,108 (32.1)|  27.8(0.69)|  586(23.5)|  14.7(0.55)
                                  |             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
Hispanic .........................| 9,272 (79.0)| 5,837 (67.3)|63.0(0.49)| 100.0  (†) | 2,112 (43.3)| 2,098 (43.2)|1,148(32.5)|  479(21.2)| 3,015 (51.0)|  32.5(0.47)|1,703(39.2)|  18.4(0.39)
  Married-couple families ........| 6,227 (69.0)| 4,086 (58.2)|65.6(0.59)|  70.0(0.59)| 1,310 (34.6)| 1,556 (37.5)|  881(28.6)|  339(17.9)| 2,225 (44.4)|  35.7(0.59)|1,274(34.1)|  20.5(0.50)
  Families with male householder, |             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
     no spouse present ...........|   908 (29.0)|   329 (17.6)|36.2(1.56)|   5.6(0.29)|   154 (12.1)|   108 (10.1)|   53 (7.1)|   14 (3.6)|   193 (13.5)|  21.3(1.32)|  128(11.0)|  14.1(1.13)
  Families with female householder|             |             |          |            |             |             |           |           |             |            |           |
     no spouse present ...........| 2,138 (43.6)| 1,422 (36.0)|66.5(1.00)|  24.4(0.55)|   648 (24.6)|   434 (20.2)|  214(14.2)|  126(10.9)|   597 (23.6)|  27.9(0.95)|  301(16.8)|  14.1(0.73)
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†Not applicable.
\1\Race of family is defined as race of head of household. "All races" includes other race/ethnicity groups not separately shown.
\2\Data are for single racial group, excluding race combinations that are not separately shown.
NOTE: Own children are never-married sons and daughters, including stepchildren and adopted children, of the householder or married couple. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard
errors appear in parentheses.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, American Families and Living Arrangements, 2004. Retrieved August 16, 2005, from http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam/cps2004.html.
(This table was prepared December 2005.)