Table 2.
Sample means for employment, housing, and living arrangement outcomes: CPS, ACS, and FFCWS
| CPS | ACS | FFCWS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mother’s Earnings/Employment | |||
| Working | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.61 |
| Annual pretax earnings (in $1,000s, 2011 dollars) | 20.09 | 20.4 | 18.78 |
| (25.53) | (22.96) | (21.31) | |
| Eviction/Homelessness | |||
| Moved because of foreclosure/evictiona | 0.02 | ||
| Evicted in last year | 0.03 | ||
| Homeless in last year | 0.02 | ||
| Cost Burden | |||
| Cost burden 30 % of mother’s earnings | 0.70 | ||
| Cost burden 50 % of mother’s earnings | 0.50 | ||
| Living Arrangements | |||
| Doubled up | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.30 |
| Living in multigenerational household | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.19 |
| Doubled up in someone else’s homeb | 0.17 | ||
| Named on the lease or mortgageb | 0.74 | ||
| Number of people in the household | 3.37 | 3.41 | 4.49 |
| (1.28) | (1.31) | (1.73) | |
| Household Crowding | |||
| Crowding | 0.09 | ||
| Number of Observations | 85,089 | 757,977 | 9,946 |
Notes: Standard deviations are shown in parentheses. The sample is restricted to single mothers with less than a college degree and with at least one coresident child under the age of 19. The CPS and ACS are also restricted to mothers aged 19–45.
Sources: Current Population Survey (CPS) 1990–2016. Census 1990/American Community Survey (ACS) 2000–2016. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) 1998–2016.
a
Available only in the 1998–2016 CPS.
b
Not available in Year 1 of the FFCWS.