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QuickStats: Percentage*,† of Men and Women Aged 25–49 Years Who Spent at Least One Night in the Past 12 Months at an Alternate Location Because They Did Not Have a Permanent Place To Stay, by Type of Location§ — National Survey of Family Growth, United States, 2017–2019
Weekly / July 16, 2021 / 70(28);1009
* With 95% confidence intervals indicated with error bars.
† Estimates are based on interviews of the U.S. household population for sample adults aged 25–49 years at the time of interview.
§ Based on the responses to the following questions asked of all respondents, “In the last 12 months, was there ever a time when you did not have a permanent place to stay and had to stay at least overnight in a location such as a shelter, a car or someplace outdoors?”; “In the last 12 months, was there ever a time when you did not have a permanent place to stay and had to stay at least overnight with a friend or relative?”
Among adults aged 25–49 years, a higher percentage of men (4.1%) than women (2.3%) stayed at least overnight in a shelter or car or outdoors in the past 12 months because they did not have a permanent place to stay. A higher percentage of men (6.4%) than women (4.1%) stayed at least overnight with a friend or relative in the past year. Among both men and women, the percentage who stayed at least overnight with a friend or relative was higher than the percentage who stayed at least overnight in a shelter or car or outdoors.
Source: National Survey of Family Growth, 2017–2019. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/index.htm
Reported by: Jennifer Sayers, MPH, jsayers@cdc.gov, 301-458-4811; Colleen Nugent, PhD.
Suggested citation for this article: QuickStats: Percentage of Men and Women Aged 25–49 Years Who Spent at Least One Night in the Past 12 Months at an Alternate Location Because They Did Not Have a Permanent Place To Stay, by Type of Location — National Survey of Family Growth, United States, 2017–2019. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:1009. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7028a4.
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