April 04, 2002 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Decline in married-couple families with both spouses employed
The proportion of all married-couple families in which both the husband and the wife were employed declined by 0.5 percentage point in 2001 to 52.7 percent.
![Distribution of married-couple families by presence of employed members, 2001](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925034519im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2002/apr/wk1/art04.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
The proportion of all married-couple families in which only the husband worked edged up to 19.4 percent in 2001, from 19.2 percent in 2000. The proportion in which only the wife worked increased by 0.4 percentage point, to 5.8 percent in 2001.
These data are a product of the Current
Population Survey. Learn more in "Employment
Characteristics of Families in 2001" news release USDL 02-175.
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