The married minority.For the first time in history, married couples constitute a minority of U.S. households, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an analysis of census figures by The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. The American Community Survey The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. , released in October by the Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census , found that 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, of the nation's 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples. This is just shy of a majority and down from more than 52 percent in 2000. These numbers do not mean that marriage is dead. The total, number of married couples is higher than ever. But more adults are staying single longer or living unmarried with partners. Andrew A. Beveridge, a demographer at Queens Cortege in New York, who conducted the analysis for The Times, says, "It's partially fueled by women in the workforce; they don't necessarily have to get married to be economically secure." |
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