May 27, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Both husband and wife work for pay
in majority of married-couple families
There were 53.7 million married-couple families in the United
States in 1998. In over half of them, both the husband and wife were employed. These
dual-worker families accounted for 53.1 percent of married-couple families.
![Distribution
of married-couple families by presence of employed members, 1998](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925101714im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/1999/May/wk4/art03.gif)
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Families in which only the husband worked for pay comprised 19.2 percent of all
married-couple families. In 5.3 percent of families maintained by married couples, only
the wife was employed.
No one worked for pay in 16.1 percent of married-couple families. This category
includes couples in which both the husband and wife are retired.
These data on married-couple families are produced by the Current
Population Survey. A family is defined here as a group of two or more persons residing
together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. More information can be found in
"Employment Characteristics of Families in
1998," news release USDL 99-146.
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