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Facts on
Grandparents in 2003
The following information on
grandparents in America was released by the U.S. Census Bureau on
Grandparents Day, Sept. 7, 2003.
Caregivers
5.7 million
Number of grandparents who live with any of their grandchildren under
18. Most of these grandparents (4.5 million) maintain their own
household. <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DSS&_lang=en>
2.4 million
Number of grandparents responsible for most of the basic needs (i.e.,
food, shelter, clothing) of one or more of the grandchildren they live
with. These grandparents represent 43 percent of all grandparents who
live with their grandchildren. Of these caregivers, 1.5 million are
grandmothers and 900,000, grandfathers. <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DSS&_lang=en>
900,000
Number of grandparents responsible for most of the basic needs of their
grandchildren for at least five years. <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DSS&_lang=en>
1.4 million
Number of grandparents who are in the labor force and simultaneously
responsible for most of the basic needs of their grandchildren. <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DSS&_lang=en>
Multigenerational
families
3.9 million
Number of multigenerational family households in the United States;
these are families where grandparents live under the same roof with two
or more generations of descendants. They represent 4 percent of all
households.
65
Percentage of multigenerational households in which the grandparent is
the householder and lives with their children and their grandchildren.
There are 2.6 million of these households.
33
Percentage of multigenerational households in which the grandparent
lives in the home of their children (or son- or daughter-in-law) along
with their children's children. These households number 1.3 million.
2
Percentage of multigenerational households (78,000) that include both
grandparents and great-grandparents, as well as children and
grandchildren of the grandparents. The great-grandparents could include
parents-in-law of the grandparents.
8.2
Percentage of households in Hawaii that are of the multigenerational
family type. Hawaii leads the nation. California (5.6 percent) and
Mississippi (5.2 percent) are the only other states that exceed 5
percent in this type of household.
1.1
Percentage of households in North Dakota made up of multigenerational
families, smallest of any state in the nation. The other states with
less than 2 percent are Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, South
Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
For more information on
multigenerational families, go to
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01cn182.html>.
Grandchildren
5.6 million
Number of children living with a grandparent; these children comprise 8
percent of all children in the United States. Of these children, 3.7
million lived in their grandparent's home and 1.8 million in their
parent's. <http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03-97.html>
21
Percentage of preschoolers who are cared for primarily by their
grandparents while their mother is employed or in school. <http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/child/ppl-168/tabH-1.pdf>
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