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Housing and Household Characteristics of Single‐ and Dual‐Earner Families
Author(s) -
Bird Gerald A.,
Day Savannah,
Cavell Marilyn
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x9001900104
Subject(s) - dual (grammatical number) , psychology , demography , demographic economics , sociology , economics , literature , art
The purpose of the present study was to identify and compare the housing char acteristics of categories of single‐ and dual‐earner families with respect to (a) demographic characteristics, (b) characteristics of present home, and (c) satisfac tion with present home. In a sample of 784 husband‐wife families, findings indi cate significant differences in housing and household characteristics, not only between single‐earner and dual‐earner families, but also among the categories of single‐ and dual‐earner families. Among dual‐earner families, differences were most often found between career/part‐time‐earner families and two‐earner fami lies. Two‐earner families were found to be more similar to one‐earner families than to the other dual‐earner family types.