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- From AmeriStat:
- Does Marriage Boost Individual Earnings?
- The text suggests that marriage causes an increase in earnings. But can we tell from these data the direction of causation? Does marriage increase earnings or are people who have high earnings potential more likely to be married? What if there is a third variable, such as health, that causes both higher earnings and an increases likelihood of marriage?
- Are Traditional Families Becoming Rare?
- Consider this: In what percent of families with a husband, wife and children, does only the husband work? Can we tell from these data? Will the answer be the same as shown in these data?
- Is Poverty Blind to Race and Ethnicity?
- Consider this: Whites account for about 75 percent of the population but only 45 of the poor. Blacks account for about 12 percent of the population but 27 percent of the poor.
- ChildStats Easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education. Includes America's Children 2003 report.
- Kids Count is an online database designed "to track the status of children in the U.S." While the focus is on children, the data may be of use in many areas of sociology. There are four different databases hosted on the site. Measures include items like infant mortality, teen birth rate, high-school dropouts, income, parental employment, education etc.
- Census Bureau data on American Families and Living Arrangements from 2000. Tables are downloadable in text, Excel and PDF format. Topics include marital and living status by sex, age, race/ethnicity, personal earnings, education and labor force status.
- Census Bureau data on Children is available about numerous topics, including living arrangements of children, well-being, child health insurance, child care, and child support.
- Census Bureau international database provides demographic and socio-economic data for 227 countries. The database includes country-specific information on vital rates, fertility and child survivorship, marital status, migration, family planning, literacy and labor force participation.
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