Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent. In 2022, among families with children, 31% were single-parent — more than three times as common.
People are waiting longer to have kids or not having kids at all, which leads to more dual income households with no kids.
These are all the failures since 2001, scaled by amount of assets in 2023 dollars.
Here’s household income by number of earners in the household, based on data from the 2022 Current Population Survey.
The rich continue to get richer, and everyone else either only kind of earns more or stays where they’re at.
Watch the growth strategy behind Target stores, starting with the first location in 1962 in Minnesota.
How do couples meet now and how has it changed over the years? Watch the rankings play out over six decades.
People get married at various ages, but there are definite trends that vary across demographic groups. What do these trends look like?
In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire, and there’s a shift in who we spend our days with.
We’ve seen that we can learn from what people search …
I’m terrible at names, but maybe data can help. Put in your sex, the decade when you were born, and start putting in your name. I’ll try to guess before you’re done.
We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?
An ongoing series about looking at the everyday through the eyes of data and charts.
Reviving the currently defunct Census-produced publication with current data.
Not everything has to be visualized. I do it anyway.
