America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

Are married- or unmarried-couple households more likely to receive benefits from government programs? Does the presence of children affect social safety net participation by household type?

These questions and more can be answered using the U.S. Census Bureau?s?updated interactive data tool on social safety net participation. The resource now offers users new data and features from the recently released 2021?Survey of Income and Program Participation?(SIPP), which provides data on calendar year 2020 and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes:

• Expanded age categories that allow users to explore relationships between age and specific social safety net programs.
• A new measure of household composition that lets users study the connection between marital status, the number of adults in a household and participation in the social safety net.

We highlight some findings from the new measure to illustrate how this update adds to?the existing capabilities of the tool.

Continue reading?to learn more about:

• New household composition

• Marital status and children

• The Survey of Income and Program Participation?(SIPP)

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