Charts for Midterm Exam

Family SociologyFCST 342

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1890 1910 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2003

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Year

Median Age at First Marriage by Sex:

1890 to Present

Men Women

http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/tabMS-2.pdf

Figure 1

Figure 2

Mothers in the Labor Force, 1955–2004

  Percentage of mothers with children

Year

Under 18 6 to 17 Under 6

years years years1

1955 27.00% 38.40% 18.20%

1965 35 45.7 25.3

1975 47.4 54.9 39

1985 62.1 69.9 53.5

1990 66.7 74.7 58.2

1995 69.7 76.4 62.3

2000 72.9 79 65.3

2004 70.7 77.5 62.21. May also have older children.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Web: data.bls.gov .

Source: Bumpass & Sweet, 1989. 8-2

Figure 3

Source: Day, Jennifer Cheeseman, Projections of the Number of Households and Families in the United States: 1995 to 2010, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, P25-1129, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996

Figure 4

Number of sexual partners in past 12 months, Number of sexual partners in past 12 months, for for never-married, non cohabiting women and men, ages 15-44, never-married, non cohabiting women and men, ages 15-44,

20022002

Figure 5