Michael Spencer
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:46:03 -0700
Noting that, in Ed Weick's post, the sum of average male income and average female income is approximately equal to the average family income, I inferred that the family figure represents a large middle group of two-income families. I immediately thought of the growing number of single mother familes and the very next post was a reply from Keith Hudson, remarking on the rapid increase in the number of single women family units. If the same rapid increase exists in Canada that Keith reports from the UK, then there are presumably a great many families in Canada with incomes clustered around the average female income. I infer that the two-income family must average considerably higher than the $51k figure Ed quotes, another sign of growing polarization or bimodality in income distribution that doesn't appear when the average family incomes are cited without some measure of family demographics. Ed, do you have a median family income figure? Or other numbers that would make this a little clearer? - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mspencer/home.html ---