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"Excess" Doubling Up During COVID: Changes in Children's Shared Living Arrangements
Mariana Amorim1, Natasha Pilkauskas2
1Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
Demography
|August 29, 2023
Summary
More than half a million US children lived in doubled-up households in 2020, an increase linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise in shared housing was particularly notable in multigenerational families, driven by economic and instrumental needs.
Area of Science:
- Sociology
- Demography
- Public Health
Background:
- Shared living arrangements, or doubled-up households, have increased over the past 40 years.
- These arrangements are often viewed as crisis coping mechanisms.
- No prior research examined changes in children's living arrangements during the initial year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine changes in children's doubled-up living arrangements in 2020.
- To quantify "excess" doubling up relative to previous years.
- To analyze trends by household type and demographic characteristics.
Main Methods:
- Utilized data from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey.
- Analyzed children's doubled-up living arrangements in 2020.
- Examined trends across different household types (multigenerational, extended, nonrelative) and demographic factors (marital status, race/ethnicity, work status, education, age, number of children).
Main Results:
- Over 509,600 children experienced "excess" doubling up in 2020.
- Increases were primarily driven by multigenerational households.
- Disproportionate increases observed among Black and Hispanic children, young children (under six), mothers who never married, and unemployed mothers.
Conclusions:
- The rise in multigenerational coresidence in 2020 was likely influenced by both economic and instrumental needs.
- Having a mother who never married emerged as a stronger correlate of coresidence in 2020.
- Findings highlight the pandemic's impact on family structures and living arrangements.
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