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We the People: Women and Men in the United States
Census 2000 Special Reports

Issued January 2005
CENSR-20

By Reneé E. Spraggins

USCENSUSBUREAU
Helping You Make Informed Decisions

U.S. Department of Commerce
Economics and Statistics Administration
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

Acknowledgments

This report was prepared by Reneé E. Spraggins, under the supervision of Karen Humes, Chief,and Annetta C. Smith, (former) Chief, Age and Special Populations Branch, and Jorge del Pinal, Assistant Division Chief, Special Population Statistics, Population Division. John F. Long, Chief, Population Division, provided overall direction. General direction was provided by Judy G. Belton, Chief, Race and Hispanic Origin Review Branch, Population Division. Within the Race and Hispanic OriginReview Branch, Linda M. Chase provided principal statistical assistance, and additional assistance was provided by Yvonne J. Gist, Debra A. Niner, Paula L. Vines, and Kimberly A. DeBarros. The contents of the report were reviewed by Marjorie F. Hanson, Denise I. Smith, and Julie A. Meyer, Population Division. Steve Smith, Population Division, provided computer programming support. Marie Unsell,Population Division, provided review assistance. Paulette Lichtman-Panzer and Jeanne Waples of the Decennial Management Division provided decennial policy review of this report. Mary Frances Zelenak and Eric L. Schindler under the guidance of Philip M. Gbur and Dawn E. Haines of the Decennial Statistical Studies Division, conducted sampling review. Jan Sweeney, Theodora Forgione, Jamie Peters, andMary Stinson, of the Administrative and Customer Services Division, Walter C. Odom, Chief, provided publications and printing management, graphics design and composition, and editorial review for print and electronic media. General direction and production management were provided by Susan L. Rappa, Chief, Publications Services Branch.

We the People: Women and Men in the United States

Thisreport provides a portrait of women in the United States and highlights comparisons with men at the national level. It is part of the Census 2000 Special Reports series that presents several demographic, social, and economic characteristics collected from Census 2000. The data contained in this report are based on the samples of households who responded to the

1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses andCensus 2000. A companion brief, based on the short-form data from Census 2000, that provides more information on this report topic is Gender: 2000.1
1 Denise I. Smith and Reneé E. Spraggins, 2001, Gender: 2000, Washington, DC, Census 2000 Brief, C2KBR/01-9, U.S. Census Bureau. This report is available on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Internet site at .

It presents information on the male and femalepopulations in regions, states, counties, and places of 100,000 or more and highlights comparisons with data from the 1990 census.

Table 1.

Population by Age and Sex: 2000
(Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cens2000/doc/sf3.pdf) Population Age Total Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 to 4 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....