Was SAME SEX Census Data Accidentally Inflated?
At first it was announced that about 901,000 households, called themselves SAME SEX. That was in August. New calculations indicate there are only about 648,000 households.
It seems unclear census forms led heterosexual couples in some cases to check the wrong box. Whoopsie!
With that said, A new Williams Institute analysis of Census 2010 data shows that nearly 132,000 (20%) of the nearly 650,000 same-sex couples in the U.S. identified as spouses.
Data further show that 31% of couples who identified as spouses and 14% of unmarried partners are raising children.
“This marks the first time in the decennial Census tabulations that the Census Bureau has released counts of same-sex couples who identify as spouses, providing important new insight into this population,” said Williams Institute demographer Gary Gates. While same-sex couples can currently marry in only six states and the District of Columbia, Census statistics suggest that some same-sex couples in every state said they were spouses. The five states with the highest percentage of same-sex couples who identified as spouses are all states that allow same-sex couples to marry: Massachusetts (44%), Vermont (35%), Connecticut (34%), Iowa (34%), and New Hampshire (31%).
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