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Receiving pay for the time not working for adults living in households with children in the United States

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Receiving pay for the time not working for adults living in households with children

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definitions: The percentage of adults living in households with children birth to age 17 by paycheck status while not working. Only respondents who reported they are not working at the time of the survey and who provided a valid response are included.

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, 2020

Footnotes: Updated January 2021
S - Estimates suppressed when the effective sample size is less than 30 or the 90% confidence interval is greater than 30 percentage points or 1.3 times the estimate.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at  Receiving pay for the time not working for adults living in households with children.