Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage ... - Census Bureau
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Figure 3.<br />
Total <strong>and</strong> Full-Time, Year-Round Workers With Earnings by Sex: 1967 to 2009<br />
Numbers in millions Recession<br />
90<br />
80<br />
70<br />
60<br />
50<br />
40<br />
30<br />
20<br />
10<br />
0<br />
1959<br />
Male workers<br />
Male full-time,<br />
year-round workers<br />
Female workers<br />
Female full-time<br />
year-round workers<br />
1965<br />
1970<br />
1975<br />
1980<br />
1985<br />
Note: Data on number of workers not readily available before 1967. People 15 years old <strong>and</strong> older beginning in 1980 <strong>and</strong> people 14 years old<br />
<strong>and</strong> older as of the following year for previous years. Before 1989, data are for civilian workers only. For information on recessions, see<br />
Appendix A.<br />
Source: U.S. <strong>Census</strong> <strong>Bureau</strong>, Current Population Survey, 1968 to 2010 Annual Social <strong>and</strong> Economic Supplements.<br />
decline). Between 2007 <strong>and</strong> 2009, By class of worker, between 2007 <strong>and</strong> between 2008 <strong>and</strong> 2009. 34 In 2009,<br />
women gained jobs in professional 2009, declines in the number of male the per capita income for the over<strong>and</strong><br />
related occupations (658,000 workers with earnings occurred in the all population was $26,530; for<br />
gain); service occupations (646,000 private wage <strong>and</strong> salary (2.3 million Whites it was $28,034; for nongain);<br />
<strong>and</strong> farming, fishing, <strong>and</strong> for- decline) <strong>and</strong> self-employed (426,000 Hispanic Whites, $30,941; for Blacks,<br />
estry occupations (87,000 gain). 32 decline) worker categories (Table A-5). $18,135; for Asians, $30,653; <strong>and</strong><br />
For female workers with earnings, for Hispanics, $15,063. 35 Per capita<br />
32 Except for the following differences, the a decline of 1.4 million occurred in income declined 1.3 percent for<br />
differences among the declines in this paragraph<br />
were not statistically significant: The difference<br />
between the decline in the number of females<br />
the private wage <strong>and</strong> salary worker<br />
category (Table A-5).<br />
Whites <strong>and</strong> 3.5 percent for Hispanics<br />
(Table 1). 36 The changes for nonin<br />
production occupations compared with the<br />
declines for males in sales <strong>and</strong> related occupa-<br />
Per Capita <strong>Income</strong><br />
Hispanic Whites, Blacks, <strong>and</strong> Asians<br />
33<br />
tions <strong>and</strong> females in office <strong>and</strong> administrative were not statistically significant.<br />
support occupations; the difference between<br />
the decline in the number of males in construc- Real per capita income declined by<br />
tion <strong>and</strong> extraction occupations <strong>and</strong> females in<br />
management, business, <strong>and</strong> financial operations<br />
occupations; <strong>and</strong> the difference between the<br />
decline in the number of females in office <strong>and</strong><br />
1.2 percent for the total population<br />
administrative support occupations compared<br />
with the declines in the number of females in<br />
33 The per capita income data presented in<br />
34 Unlike medians, per capita <strong>and</strong> means are<br />
management, business, <strong>and</strong> financial operations this report are not directly comparable with esti- affected by extremely high <strong>and</strong> low incomes.<br />
occupations <strong>and</strong> males in production occupa- mates of personal per capita income prepared by<br />
35 The difference between the per capita<br />
tions <strong>and</strong> transportation <strong>and</strong> material-moving the <strong>Bureau</strong> of Economic Analysis, U.S. incomes of the non-Hispanic-White <strong>and</strong> Asian<br />
occupations. In addition, the difference between Department of Commerce. The lack of corre- populations was not statistically significant.<br />
the increases in the number of females in profes- spondence stems from the differences in income<br />
36 The difference between the declines for<br />
sional <strong>and</strong> related occupations <strong>and</strong> those in ser- definition <strong>and</strong> coverage. For further details, see the overall <strong>and</strong> White populations was not statisvice<br />
occupations was not statistically significant. .<br />
tically significant.<br />
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1990<br />
1995<br />
2000<br />
2005<br />
2009