{"id":1246,"date":"2013-09-13T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2013-09-12T13:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T18:10:26","slug":"facts-for-features-unmarried-and-single-americans-week-sept-15-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2013\/09\/13\/facts-for-features-unmarried-and-single-americans-week-sept-15-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts for Features: Unmarried and Single Americans Week (Sept. 15 – 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"CensusBureau\"<\/a>The Buckeye Singles Council started \u201cNational Singles Week\u201d in Ohio in the 1980s to celebrate single life and recognize singles and their contributions to society. The week is now widely observed during the third full week of September (Sept. 15-21 in 2013) as \u201cUnmarried and Single Americans Week,\u201d an acknowledgment that many unmarried Americans do not identify with the word \u201csingle\u201d because they are parents, have partners or are widowed. In this edition of Facts for Features, unmarried people include those who were never married, widowed or divorced, unless otherwise noted.<\/em><\/p>\n

Single Life<\/h3>\n

103 million<\/strong>
\nNumber of unmarried people in America 18 and older in 2012. This group made up 44.1 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older.
\nSource: America\u2019s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012<\/a>
\n Table A1<\/a><\/p>\n

53.6%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older who were women in 2012; 46.4 percent were men.
\nSource: America\u2019s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 Table A1<\/a><\/p>\n

62%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older in 2012 who had never been married. Another 24 percent were divorced, and 14 percent were widowed.
\nSource: America\u2019s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 Table A1<\/a><\/p>\n

17 million<\/strong>
\nNumber of unmarried U.S. residents 65 and older in 2012. These seniors made up 16 percent of all unmarried people 18 and older.
\nSource: America\u2019s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 Table A1<\/a><\/p>\n

87<\/strong>
\nNumber of unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States in 2012.
\nSource: America\u2019s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 Table A1<\/a><\/p>\n

56 million<\/strong>
\nNumber of households maintained by unmarried men and women in 2012. These households comprised 46 percent of households nationwide.
\nSource: America\u2019s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 Table A2<\/a><\/p>\n

33 million<\/strong>
\nNumber of people who lived alone in 2012. They comprised 27 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970.
\nSource: America\u2019s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 Table H1 and HH-4<\/a><\/p>\n

Parenting<\/h3>\n

36%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of women age 15 to 50 with a birth in the last 12 months, as of 2011, who were widowed, divorced or never married.
\nSource: 2011 American Community Survey Table DP02<\/a><\/p>\n

40%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of opposite-sex, unmarried-partner couples in 2012 that lived with at least one biological child of either partner.
\nSource: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 Table UC3<\/a><\/p>\n

804,000<\/strong>
\nNumber of unmarried grandparents who were responsible for most of the basic care of a co-resident grandchild in 2011. Twenty-nine percent of co-resident grandparents responsible for their grandchildren were unmarried.
\nSource: 2011 American Community Survey Table B10057<\/a><\/p>\n

Unmarried Couples<\/h3>\n

6.7 million<\/strong>
\nNumber of unmarried-partner households in 2011. Of this number, 605,000<\/strong> were same-sex households.
\nSource: 2011 American Community Survey Table B11009<\/a><\/p>\n

Voters<\/h3>\n

39%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of voters in the 2012 presidential election, who were unmarried, compared to 24 percent of voters in the 1972 presidential election.
\nSource: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2012 Table 9<\/a><\/p>\n

35%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of voters in the 2010 November election who were unmarried.
\nSource: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2010 Table 9<\/a><\/p>\n

Education<\/h3>\n

32.1%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2012 who had a high school diploma or equivalent as their highest level of attainment.
\nSource: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2012 Table 2<\/a><\/p>\n

26%<\/strong>
\nPercentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2012 with a bachelor\u2019s degree or more education.
\nSource: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2012 Table 2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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