June 16, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Share of families with an employed member rose in 1999
In 1999, 83.1
percent of U.S. families had at least one employed member, up 0.5
percentage point from 1998. Of the nation's 71.3 million families, 6.0
percent reported having an unemployed member, a decline of 0.4 percentage
point from the previous year.
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Overall, 84.1 percent of married-couple families included an employed
person in 1999, as did 86.3 percent of families maintained by men. Both
proportions were about unchanged over the year. Among families maintained
by women, a smaller proportion (77.6 percent) included an employed person;
however, this proportion rose by 1.9 percentage points between 1998 and
1999.
Families in which only the husband worked comprised 19.3 percent of
married-couple families, also about the same proportion as the year
before. The proportion of married-couple families in which both husband
and wife were employed also was little changed at 53.0 percent.
These data on families are produced by the Current
Population Survey. More information
can be found in Employment
Characteristics of Families in 1999,
news release USDL 00-172.
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