Country's
Older
Population
Profiled
by
the
U.S.
Census
Bureau
June
4,
2001
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Among
people
age
65
years
and
over,
14
percent
were
in
the
civilian
labor
force,
55
percent
were
married
and
living
with
their
spouse
and
9.7
percent
had
incomes
below
the
poverty
level,
according
to
tabulations
released
today
by
the
Commerce
Department's
Census
Bureau.
The
Census
Bureau
cautions
the
public
not
to
confuse
these
estimates,
based
on
survey
data
collected
in
March
2000,
with
Census
2000
data
now
being
released
on
a
flow
basis.
Findings
from
these
two
sources
may
not
agree
because
of
different
data
collection
procedures.
Other
highlights:
Men
65
and
over
were
more
likely
than
women
in
this
age
group
to
be
married
and
living
with
their
spouse.
For
example,
among
those
in
the
65-
to
84-year-old
age
group,74
percent
of
men
and
45
percent
of
women
were
married
and
living
with
their
spouse.
These
proportions
were
much
lower
for
people
85
years
and
over:
53
percent
of
men
and
12
percent
of
women.
Older
men
were
more
likely
than
older
women
to
be
in
the
civilian
labor
force.
Among
those
age
65
and
over,
19
percent
of
men
and
10
percent
of
women
were
in
the
civilian
labor
force.
Among
employed
people
age
65
and
over,
men
were
more
likely
than
women
to
work
in
executive,
administrative
and
managerial
occupations
(19
percent
compared
with
12
percent).
Women,
on
the
other
hand,
worked
more
frequently
in
administrative
support
jobs
than
did
men
(28
percent
compared
with
6
percent).
Older
women
had
a
higher
poverty
rate
than
older
men.
For
example,
among
those
65
and
over,
11.8
percent
of
women
and
6.9
percent
of
men
were
poor.
Half
of
all
adults
65
years
and
over
lived
in
the
suburbs.
The
statistics
on
the
older
population
were
extracted
from
a
series
of
21
tables
titled
The
Older
Population
in
the
United
States:
March
2000,
PPL-147.
Data
in
the
tables
were
collected
in
the
March
2000
Current
Population
Survey.
They
cover
such
topics
as
age
and
sex
distribution,
marital
status,
household
type
and
size,
educational
attainment,
nativity,labor
force
status,
occupation,
income,
poverty
status
and
tenure
for
various
age
groups,
beginning
with
55
years
and
over.
The
Census
Bureau
today
also
released
a
special
edition
of
its
monthly
Facts
for
Features
for
Older
Americans
Month,
which
was
celebrated
in
May.
This
fact
sheet
is
a
brief
compendium
of
current
statistics
on
the
older
population.
As
with
all
surveys,
the
data
are
subject
to
sampling
and
nonsampling
error.
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