America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

As Pride Month is celebrated this June across the nation and world, the U.S. Census Bureau helps to paint a more complete demographic portrait of America with a wealth of data products on same-sex couple households.

The Census Bureau has created products that look at same-sex couple households (a small subset of the full lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or LGBTQ population).

We recently released the Census 2020 estimates based on the relationship to householder data in the 2020 Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) File. Additionally, we authored an America Counts story released with the DHC 2020 data.

Continue reading to learn more about:

• Data collection for same-sex married couple households
• Characteristics of same-sex couple households: 2005 - present
• The Census Bureau's Household Pulse survey

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