Fertility of American WomenU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1985 |
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1,000 women Percent 34 years old administrative support American Women birth expectations Births Births to date Black Total Census central cities childbearing Children ever born College confidence interval craft Current Population Reports Current Population Survey Data limited defined in appendix EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT estimated numbers Expected per 1,000 fabricators Farming Fertility of American fertility rate forestry Future and Lifetime high school graduate household LABOR FORCE STATUS Lifetime Births Expected limited to reporting Managerial and professional Marital Classes Total marital status meaning of symbols Metropolitan Midwest Never Married Total Northeast number of children Number of women Numbers in thousands old Women 25 Percent childless Number percentage of women Precision production Races Total repair reporting on birth selected characteristics Selected Characteristics-Continued Series P-20 Service occupations Spanish origin standard error survey date table C-1 table of contents Unemployed White Total women 18 women Children Women Never Married women Percent childless women Total
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Page 30 - Employed persons comprise (1) all civilians who, during the specified week, did any work at all as paid employees or in their own business or profession, or on their own farm, or who worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers...
Page 30 - South— Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and...
Page 52 - ... inability to recall information, errors made in collection such as in recording or coding the data, errors made in processing the data, errors made in estimating values for missing data, and failure to represent all units with the sample (undercoverage).
Page 33 - Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples...
Page 64 - The reliability of an estimated percentage, computed using sample data for both numerator and denominator, depends upon both the size of the percentage and the size of the total upon which the percentage is based. Estimated percentages are relatively more reliable than the corresponding estimates of the numerators of the percentages, particularly if the percentages are 50 percent or more.
Page 30 - SMSA is a county or group of contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000.
Page 58 - A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated persons sharing a housing unit, as partners, is also counted as a household.
Page 48 - A household consists of all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A house. an apartment or other group of rooms. or a single room. is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is.
Page 54 - Therefore, a conclusion that the average estimate derived from all possible samples lies within a range computed in this way would be correct for roughly 90 percent of all possible samples.
Page 59 - ... registering at a public or private employment office, meeting with prospective employers, checking with friends or relatives, placing or answering advertisements, writing letters of application, or being on a union or professional register...