Arkansas - Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006

Arkansas

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006

Data Set: 2006 American Community Survey
Survey: American Community Survey

Social - Education, Marital Status, Relationships, Fertility, Grandparents...
Economic - Income, Employment, Occupation, Commuting to Work...
Housing - Occupancy and Structure, Housing Value and Costs, Utilities...
Demographic - Sex and Age, Race, Hispanic Origin, Housing Units...
Narrative - Text profile with graphs for easy analysis...

NOTE. Although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates the official estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states and counties.

For more information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see Survey Methodology.

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006	Estimate	Margin of Error
HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	1,103,428	+/-7,576
Family households (families)	758,195	+/-10,004
With own children under 18 years	333,447	+/-7,375
Married-couple families	567,229	+/-8,579
With own children under 18 years	224,782	+/-5,961
Male householder, no wife present	48,821	+/-3,874
With own children under 18 years	24,788	+/-2,626
Female householder, no husband present	142,145	+/-5,997
With own children under 18 years	83,877	+/-4,338
Nonfamily households	345,233	+/-7,461
Householder living alone	296,225	+/-7,261
65 years and over	109,912	+/-3,964

Households with one or more people under 18 years	379,411	+/-7,723
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	274,524	+/-3,210

Average household size	2.48	+/-0.02
Average family size	2.99	+/-0.03

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	2,732,550	*****
Householder	1,103,428	+/-7,576
Spouse	566,166	+/-8,307
Child	777,182	+/-9,672
Other relatives	167,589	+/-8,895
Nonrelatives	118,185	+/-6,797
Unmarried partner	45,952	+/-3,411

MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over	1,083,858	+/-2,899
Never married	295,960	+/-7,103
Now married, except separated	611,601	+/-9,294
Separated	21,498	+/-1,972
Widowed	28,401	+/-2,423
Divorced	126,398	+/-5,857

Females 15 years and over	1,153,250	+/-2,475
Never married	242,500	+/-5,482
Now married, except separated	589,035	+/-8,951
Separated	31,554	+/-3,040
Widowed	138,694	+/-4,874
Divorced	151,467	+/-5,548

FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months	41,472	+/-3,099
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)	15,684	+/-2,421
Per 1,000 unmarried women	49	+/-7
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old	60	+/-4
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old	41	+/-10
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old	119	+/-11
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old	14	+/-3

GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents living with own grandchildren under 18 years	66,016	+/-4,472
Responsible for grandchildren	40,148	+/-3,760
Years responsible for grandchildren
Less than 1 year	8,833	+/-2,102
1 or 2 years	8,469	+/-1,776
3 or 4 years	7,975	+/-1,569
5 or more years	14,871	+/-2,495

Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Who are female	62.7%	+/-2.7
Who are married	71.2%	+/-4.4

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school	701,027	+/-8,651
Nursery school, preschool	53,077	+/-3,711
Kindergarten	40,905	+/-2,451
Elementary school (grades 1-8)	294,151	+/-4,578
High school (grades 9-12)	151,205	+/-3,621
College or graduate school	161,689	+/-6,441

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over	1,847,325	+/-3,757
Less than 9th grade	136,143	+/-5,463
9th to 12th grade, no diploma	223,906	+/-6,637
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	671,500	+/-11,262
Some college, no degree	378,534	+/-8,043
Associate's degree	100,619	+/-4,692
Bachelor's degree	221,233	+/-6,781
Graduate or professional degree	115,390	+/-5,674

Percent high school graduate or higher	80.5%	+/-0.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher	18.2%	+/-0.4

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over	2,110,583	+/-1,956
Civilian veterans	258,170	+/-6,151

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 years and over	2,561,959	+/-2,402
With a disability	557,234	+/-9,701

Population 5 to 15 years	415,201	+/-4,178
With a disability	38,831	+/-2,768

Population 16 to 64 years	1,777,162	+/-4,762
With a disability	331,810	+/-9,416

Population 65 years and over	369,596	+/-2,071
With a disability	186,593	+/-4,268

RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over	2,772,458	+/-2,320
Same house	2,239,652	+/-18,720
Different house in the U.S.	523,699	+/-18,631
Same county	303,569	+/-16,002
Different county	220,130	+/-10,837
Same state	113,429	+/-7,485
Different state	106,701	+/-7,624
Abroad	9,107	+/-1,810

PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population	2,810,872	*****
Native	2,703,526	+/-4,254
Born in United States	2,686,608	+/-4,575
State of residence	1,723,478	+/-14,609
Different state	963,130	+/-13,909
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)	16,918	+/-2,410
Foreign born	107,346	+/-4,254

U.S. CITIZENSHIP STATUS
Foreign-born population	107,346	+/-4,254
Naturalized U.S. citizen	30,552	+/-2,591
Not a U.S. citizen	76,794	+/-3,865

YEAR OF ENTRY
Population born outside the United States	124,264	+/-4,575

Native	16,918	+/-2,410
Entered 2000 or later	1,896	+/-889
Entered before 2000	15,022	+/-2,134

Foreign born	107,346	+/-4,254
Entered 2000 or later	37,717	+/-4,101
Entered before 2000	69,629	+/-3,634

WORLD REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population, excluding population born at sea	107,346	+/-4,254
Europe	9,863	+/-1,392
Asia	22,429	+/-2,248
Africa	1,636	+/-754
Oceania	879	+/-545
Latin America	70,026	+/-3,419
Northern America	2,513	+/-797

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over	2,616,131	+/-1,982
English only	2,456,301	+/-5,533
Language other than English	159,830	+/-5,690
Speak English less than "very well"	79,126	+/-4,186
Spanish	116,396	+/-3,233
Speak English less than "very well"	64,988	+/-3,453
Other Indo-European languages	16,570	+/-2,705
Speak English less than "very well"	2,086	+/-642
Asian and Pacific Islander languages	20,476	+/-2,072
Speak English less than "very well"	10,423	+/-1,779
Other languages	6,388	+/-3,025
Speak English less than "very well"	1,629	+/-970

ANCESTRY
Total population	2,810,872	*****
American	339,846	+/-12,414
Arab	4,629	+/-2,018
Czech	5,817	+/-1,394
Danish	5,973	+/-1,405
Dutch	56,165	+/-5,218
English	289,462	+/-10,222
French (except Basque)	66,258	+/-4,930
French Canadian	7,634	+/-2,072
German	363,239	+/-12,165
Greek	3,276	+/-1,069
Hungarian	3,399	+/-1,780
Irish	376,226	+/-10,703
Italian	48,223	+/-5,366
Lithuanian	874	+/-435
Norwegian	13,631	+/-2,204
Polish	26,393	+/-2,923
Portuguese	3,545	+/-1,551
Russian	5,420	+/-1,863
Scotch-Irish	57,479	+/-4,741
Scottish	57,973	+/-4,359
Slovak	1,242	+/-595
Subsaharan African	14,014	+/-3,226
Swedish	17,481	+/-2,368
Swiss	4,711	+/-1,362
Ukrainian	720	+/-343
Welsh	12,799	+/-2,227
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)	4,842	+/-1,668

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2006	Estimate	Margin of Error

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey

Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data). The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.

Notes:
�Ancestry listed in this table refers to the total number of people who responded with a particular ancestry; for example, the estimate given for Russian represents the number of people who listed Russian as either their first or second ancestry. This table lists only the largest ancestry groups; see the Detailed Tables for more categories. Race and Hispanic origin groups are not included in this table because official data for those groups come from the Race and Hispanic origin questions rather than the ancestry question (see Demographic Table).
�The Census Bureau introduced a new skip pattern for the disability questions in the 2003 ACS questionnaire. This change mainly affected two individual items -- go-outside-home disability and employment disability -- and the recode for disability status, which includes the two items. Accordingly, comparisons of data from 2003 or later with data from prior years are not recommended for the relevant questions. For more information, see the ACS Subject Definitions for Disability.
�Data for year of entry of the native population reflect the year of entry into the U.S. by people who were born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas or born outside the U.S. to a U.S. citizen parent and who subsequently moved to the U.S.
�While the 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) data generally reflect the December 2005 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) definitions of metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, in certain instances the names, codes, and boundaries of the principal cities shown in ACS tables may differ from the OMB definitions due to differences in the effective dates of the geographic entities.

Explanation of Symbols:
1. An '**' entry in the margin of error column indicates that either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.
2. An '-' entry in the estimate column indicates that either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute an estimate, or a ratio of medians cannot be calculated because one or both of the median estimates falls in the lowest interval or upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
3. An '-' following a median estimate means the median falls in the lowest interval of an open-ended distribution.
4. An '+' following a median estimate means the median falls in the upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
5. An '***' entry in the margin of error column indicates that the median falls in the lowest interval or upper interval of an open-ended distribution. A statistical test is not appropriate.
6. An '*****' entry in the margin of error column indicates that the estimate is controlled. A statistical test for sampling variability is not appropriate.
7. An 'N' entry in the estimate and margin of error columns indicates that data for this geographic area cannot be displayed because the number of sample cases is too small.
8. An '(X)' means that the estimate is not applicable or not available.

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