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Single-Parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children (5-year estimate) in Middlesex County, MA (S1101SPHOUSE025017)

Observations

2024: 20.71326
Updated: Jan 29, 2026 9:39 AM CST
2024:  20.71326  
2023:  20.61386  
2022:  20.40860  
2021:  20.32662  
2020:  20.62908  

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Not Seasonally Adjusted

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Title Release Dates
Single-parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children in Middlesex County, MA 2017-01-27 2020-07-12
Single-Parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children (5-year estimate) in Middlesex County, MA 2020-07-13 2026-01-29
 
Source    
U.S. Census Bureau 2017-01-27 2026-01-29
 
Release    
Single Parent Households with Children 2017-01-27 2026-01-29
 
Units    
Percent 2017-01-27 2026-01-29
 
Frequency    
Annual 2017-01-27 2026-01-29
 
Seasonal Adjustment    
Not Seasonally Adjusted 2017-01-27 2026-01-29
 
Notes    
These data represent single-parent households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age as percentage of total households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age.

Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.

Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010–2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011–2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.

Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf

American Community Survey Table S1101.

2017-01-27 2020-07-12
The single-parent household rate is calculated as the sum of male and female single-parent households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age divided by total households with their own children who are younger than 18-years of age (ACS 5-year variables S1101_C03_005E, S1101_C04_005E, and S1101_C01_005E respectively from table S1101).

Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.

Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010-2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011-2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.

Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook (https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf) for a more thorough clarification.

2020-07-13 2026-01-29

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