Beginning with 2020 data, CPS estimates of married-couple…

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Beginning with 2020 data, CPS estimates of married-couple families include both opposite-sex and same-sex married-couple families, whereas before 2020 they included only opposite-sex married-couple families.

Sources

Families and marital status (bls.gov)
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/census-briefs/c2020br-10.pdf (www2.census.gov)
https://cps.ipums.org/cps/resources/other_docs/sehsd-wp2019-05.pdf (cps.ipums.org)

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