Census Explores the Single Life

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Census Explores the Single Life

By Tom Shoop
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Outside the bureaucracy, looking in.
Friday, August 11

11:02 a.m. ET
Census Explores the Single Life The Census Bureau is looking ahead to Unmarried and Single Americans Week in September. The bureau helpfully provides some facts and figures about the single life:

* 89.8 million Number of unmarried and single Americans in 2005.
* 54% Percentage of unmarried and single Americans who are women.
* 60% Percentage of unmarried and single Americans who have never been married. Another 25 percent are divorced and 15 percent are widowed.
* 86 Number of unmarried men age 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States.
* 904 Number of dating services nationwide as of 2002. These establishments, which include Internet dating services, employed nearly 4,300 people and pulled in $489 million in revenues.

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