Table 3.
| Characteristics of Families in Q1, Q2, and Q3
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| Q1 (Bottom 25%) N=330,609a | Q2 (25th–50th%) N=338,331 | Q3 (50th–75th%) N=350,062 | |||||||
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| White (N=253,235) | Black (40,692) | Hispanic (N=36,682) | White (261,349) | Black (39,631) | Hispanic (37,351) | White (N=273,195) | Black (39,002) | Hispanic (N=37,865) | |
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| Age (Md) | 60 | 46 | 40 | 48 | 43 | 37 | 45 | 42 | 39 |
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| Educational Attainment | |||||||||
| High school graduate (%) | 59.9 | 51.6 | 35.2 | 65.5 | 63.6 | 43.9 | 62.3 | 66.0 | 51.5 |
| College graduate (%) | 11.0 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 20.1 | 7.6 | 6.0 | 30.1 | 17.2 | 10.9 |
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| Sex (% Male) | 40.9 | 26.4 | 41.3 | 58.9 | 36.8 | 57.7 | 67.5 | 46.7 | 62.3 |
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| Marital status (% married) | 28.1 | 20.4 | 42.7 | 51.2 | 32.5 | 61.0 | 71.7 | 45.2 | 68.8 |
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| Children in household | |||||||||
| At least one child < 6 (%) | 8.5 | 19.8 | 26.0 | 11.5 | 15.7 | 29.7 | 16.3 | 14.9 | 26.6 |
| At least one child < 18 (%) | 16.7 | 35.0 | 44.0 | 24.8 | 35.8 | 52.1 | 37.2 | 36.9 | 53.0 |
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| Employment | |||||||||
| Employed (%) | 33.9 | 27.1 | 42.9 | 61.6 | 60.3 | 68.9 | 76.9 | 75.4 | 78.3 |
| Unemp. (%) | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| Retired (%) | 39.0 | 21.8 | 16.7 | 25.5 | 16.6 | 9.2 | 13.3 | 10.6 | 6.4 |
| Unable/dis (%) | 9.5 | 20.2 | 11.7 | 3.1 | 7.8 | 4.2 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 2.5 |
| Other (%) | 15.5 | 28.5 | 25.9 | 7.2 | 12.5 | 14.5 | 5.6 | 7.1 | 9.5 |
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| Modal occupationsb | Personal care/service | Personal care/service | Personal care/service | Personal care/service | Personal care/service | Personal care/service | Personal care/service | Personal care/service | Health care |
| Education, training | Education, training | Education, training | Health care | Education, training | Education, training | Health care | Life, physical, social science | Personal care/service | |
| Life, physical, social science | Architecture, engineering | Health care | Life, physical, social science | Life, physical, social science | Health care | Management | Education, training | Education, training | |
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| Modal industry | Wholesale & retail trade | Wholesale & retail trade | Wholesale & retail trade | Wholesale & retail trade | Health care | Wholesale & retail trade | Manufacturing | Manufacturing | Manufacturing |
| Hospitality services | Hospitality services | Hospitality services | Manufacturing | Wholesale & retail trade | Manufacturing | Wholesale & retail trade | Health care | Wholesale & retail trade | |
| Manufacturing | Healthcare | Manufacturing | Construction | Manufacturing | Construction | Construction | Educ & Social Service | Construction | |
| Characteristics of Families in Q4 and Top 1%
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| Q4 (75th–99th%) N=334,826a | Top 1% N=13,856 | |||||
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| White (260,672) | Black (N=37,326) | Hispanic (36,828) | White (10,709) | Black (1,615) | Hispanic (1,532) | |
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| Age (Md) | 47 | 44 | 41 | 49 | 47 | 45 |
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| Educational Attainment | ||||||
| High school grad (%) | 45.6 | 59.3 | 55.1 | 23.8 | 35.7 | 32.6 |
| College graduate (%) | 51.2 | 31.2 | 23.1 | 74.6 | 59.7 | 55.2 |
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| Sex (% Male) | 72.8 | 59.1 | 69.2 | 72.9 | 65.7 | 70.8 |
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| Marital status (% married) | 86.7 | 69.9 | 80.7 | 89.7 | 80.5 | 86.1 |
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| Children in household | ||||||
| At least one child < 6 (%) | 15.8 | 16.1 | 23.1 | 15.2 | 17.1 | 20.7 |
| At least one child < 18 (%) | 41.9 | 43.3 | 53.0 | 41.2 | 44.0 | 49.1 |
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| Employment | ||||||
| Employed (%) | 83.6 | 83.4 | 84.3 | 83.4 | 86.0 | 85.4 |
| Unemployed (%) | 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| Retired (%) | 8.1 | 7.3 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 2.7 |
| Unable/disabled (%) | 0.7 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 0.7 |
| Other (%) | 5.0 | 4.4 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 3.9 | 9.0 |
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| Modal occupationsb | Management | Business & finance | Health care | Management | Management | Management |
| Business & finance | Management | Management | Business & finance | Business & finance | Business & finance | |
| Architecture & engineering | Life, physical, social sciences | Business & finance | Architecture & engineering | Architecture & engineering | Architecture & engineering | |
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| Modal industry | Manufacturing | Manufacturing | Manufacturing | Prof, technical, management services | Health care | Prof, technical, management services |
| Wholesale & retail trade | Education & Social Services | Wholesale & retail trade | Finance, ins., real estate | Prof, technical, management services | Health care | |
| Prof, technical, management services | Public admin | Construction | Healthcare | Education & Social Services | Wholesale & retail trade/finance, ins, real estate | |
a
Unweighted Ns; values for all characteristics are weighted
b
Modal occupations are for years 2003–2009 only. The CPS changed occupation coding in 2003. The 2003–2009 codes vary too drastically from prior years’ codes to include all years in the modal occupations calculation.