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Definitions: The share of children under age 18 whose resident parents are in the civilian labor force by children in foreign-born or US-born families. For children living in a married-couple family or subfamily, this means that both parents are in the labor force. For children living in a single-parent family or subfamily, this means the resident parent is in the labor force. The civilian labor force includes persons who are employed and those who are unemployed but looking for work. More...
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 American Community Survey.
Footnotes: Updated March 2010. A 90–percent confidence interval—a range of values around each estimate—is reported for each estimate at Children with all available parents in the labor force by children in immigrant families.
Note: The District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are not included in maps and rankings because they are not states and therefore comparisons on many indicators of child well being are not meaningful.
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