How Do They Compare with Interracial Married-Couple Households in Census 2000?
Tavia Simmons, U.S. Census Bureau Martin T. O’Connell, U.S. Census Bureau Census 2000 was designed to collect detailed information on the social and economic characteristics of people residing in the United States, at both small geographical levels and for population groups which ordinarily are too small to analyze from national-level surveys. This poster will use both of these strengths of Census 2000 to look at interracial couple households, a group that is usually very difficult to study. Additionally, 2000 was the first year that the race question was expanded on the Census form to include multiple race responses, and thus more racial detail is possible than ever before. Because of the particular strengths of census data, decennial censuses from past years have been used to look at interracial married couples. This poster will expand on previous studies, since it will compare married-couple households to opposite-sex unmarried-partner households, female same-sex unmarried-partner h
