{"id":161,"date":"2022-08-31T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwart\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2022-08-31T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T02:17:00","slug":"descriptive-characteristics-of-married-and-unmarried-men-and-women-aged-25-54-1940-1960-1980-2000-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/?page_id=161","title":{"rendered":"Descriptive Characteristics of Married and Unmarried Men and Women Aged 25-54: 1940, 1960, 1980, 2000, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Excel file linked below shows characteristics of married\u00a0and unmarried men and women aged 20-54 in 1940, 1960,\u00a01980, 2000, and 2019,\u00a0respectively. Measures included are employment status, personal wage and salary\u00a0income (earnings),\u00a0race\/ethnicity, age, and education.<br class=\"\" \/>\u00a0<br class=\"\" \/>Farmers, those living in group quarters, and the\u00a0self-employed were excluded from the sample because these are groups\u00a0for which\u00a0wage and salary income may not be applicable. Supplementary analyses (also included in the spreadsheet) show that\u00a0including these groups and\u00a0estimating trends with total personal income are\u00a0similar. Individuals age 20-54 were included regardless of their spouses\u2019\u00a0age\u00a0given that a similar restriction is not possible for unmarried individuals.<br class=\"\" \/>\u00a0<br class=\"\" \/>Descriptive statistics are shown for four groups: married\u00a0women, married men, unmarried women, and unmarried men.\u00a0Married individuals are\u00a0defined as those who were married (with or without a spouse present) as well as\u00a0those who were\u00a0separated. Unmarried individuals are defined as those who were\u00a0divorced, widowed, or never married\/single.<br class=\"\" \/>\u00a0<br class=\"\" \/>For each of the four groups, we show the proportion\u00a0employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force, and the average\u00a0total pre-tax\u00a0wage and salary income (earnings). Earnings and income are adjusted to 2018 dollars (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minneapolisfed.org\/about-us\/monetary-policy\/inflation-calculator\/consumer-price-index-1913-\">Consumer Price Index<\/a>). Population shares of White, Black, and Hispanic are also\u00a0calculated. Whites include those who identified as White regardless of\u00a0ethnicity, Blacks include those who identified as Black regardless of\u00a0ethnicity, and Hispanic include those who identified\u00a0as Hispanic regardless of\u00a0racial identification. The share of high school graduates, individuals with\u00a0some college, and\u00a0college graduates is calculated for each group. All\u00a0descriptive statistics are calculated using person weights.<br class=\"\" \/>\u00a0<br class=\"\" \/>These tables were inspired by Lichter, Price, and Swigert\u00a0(2020: Table 1), who provide similar descriptive statistics for 2008-2012 and 2013-2017 from the American Community Survey 5-year samples. Graphs of selected measures (% with a college degree, median earnings, % employed) are also linked below.<br class=\"\" \/>\u00a0<br class=\"\" \/>Lichter, Daniel T, Joseph P Price, and Jeffrey M Swigert. 2020.\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/jomf.12603\">Mismatches in the marriage market<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Journal of Marriage and\u00a0Family<\/em>\u00a082(2):796-809.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tables<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/etc.clientlibs\/census\/clientlibs\/census-pattern-library\/resources\/images\/xls.svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwart\/Table 1s_1940_to_2019_2ways.xlsx\">Characteristics of Married and Unmarried Men and Women Aged 25-54: 1940, 1960, 1980, 2000, 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Figures<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-175 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwart\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Married_Unmarried_Figures_f1-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Married_Unmarried_Figures_f1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Married_Unmarried_Figures_f1-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Married_Unmarried_Figures_f1.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwart\/Married_Unmarried_Figures.pdf\">Characteristics of Married and Unmarried Men and Women Aged 25-54: 1940, 1960, 1980, 2000, 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Excel file linked below shows characteristics of married\u00a0and unmarried men and women aged 20-54 in 1940, 1960,\u00a01980, 2000, and 2019,\u00a0respectively. Measures included are employment status, personal wage and salary\u00a0income (earnings),\u00a0race\/ethnicity, age, and education.\u00a0Farmers, those living in group quarters, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/?page_id=161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/178"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~cschwartz3\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}