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Children in low-income working families by family nativity in United States

Children in low-income working families by family nativity

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Definition and Source

PROVIDER

Definition

The share of own children under age 18 living in families that met two criteria: (1) the family income was less than twice the federal poverty level; (2) at least one parent worked 50 or more weeks during the previous year, by children in foreign-born or US-born families.

Data Source

Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 - 2019, 2021 American Community Survey.

Notes

Updated November 2022.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.
N.A. – Data not available.
Data are provided for the 50 most populous cities according to the most recent Census counts.  Cities for which data is collected may change over time.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children in low-income working families by family nativity.

Last Updated

December 2022