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The proportion of all married-couple families in which both the husband and the wife were employed declined by 0.5 percentage point in 2001 to 52.7 percent.
The proportion of all married-couple families in which only the husband worked edged up to 19.4 percent in 2001, from 19.2 percent in 2000. The proportion in which only the wife worked increased by 0.4 percentage point, to 5.8 percent in 2001.
These data are a product of the Current Employment Statistics and Current Population Survey. Learn more in "Employment Characteristics of Families in 2001" news release USDL 02-175.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Decline in married-couple families with both spouses employed at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2002/apr/wk1/art04.htm (visited October 31, 2024).