vitrine · corridor · pairwise

1960s ↔ 2020s

Fact families the measure guard certifies comparable for this pair. Everything else renders as the gap it is. Every value links to its placard.

Rooms 1960s 2020s all corridors

A median home — affordability

1960s ↔ 2020s
not comparable for this pair — the hours axis needs a structured price and a verified wage anchor in both rooms — not yet curated for this pair

Life expectancy at birth

years (all races, both sexes)

⚠ Decades before the 1960s published white-only male/female life tables with no all-races total — the placard carries the sexed figures and the chart renders the gap rather than a spliced concept.
1960s · Tier A
66.6 male, 73.1 female (69.7 total, all races)
2020s · Tier A
75.8 male, 81.1 female (78.4 total)

Infant mortality

deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births

1960s · Tier A
26.0 per 1,000 live births
2020s · Tier A
5.6 per 1,000 live births

People in poverty

% below the official poverty line

⚠ The official poverty series begins in 1959 — earlier decades have no line.
1960s · Tier A
22.2% (39.9 million people in poverty)
2020s · Tier A
10.6% (35.9 million people)

Homeownership

% of occupied housing units owner-occupied

1960s · Tier A
61.9%
2020s · Tier A
65.3%

Telephone

% of households

⚠ 1910s–1930s sources counted telephones per 1,000 population, not households — those decades render as gaps rather than a unit splice.
⚠ The 2020s point counts cell phones (92.7%); the landline share is on the placard.
1960s · Tier A
78.3% of households had telephone
2020s · Tier A
Cell phone 92.7%, landline 20.1%, garage/carport 67.6%

Air conditioning

% of households with AC

⚠ The 1980s source bridges 1978 central-AC and 1993 total-AC figures — no single-decade datum, so the decade renders as a gap.
1960s · Tier A
18.8% of households had air conditioning
2020s · Tier A
88% (two-thirds central AC)

Women's unpaid home production

hours per week, prime-age women

⚠ The 2020s source (ATUS) measures all-adult household activities, a concept splice from Ramey's women's series — flagged, not smoothed, so the chart renders it as a gap and the placard carries both figures.
1960s · Tier C
40.9
2020s · Tier C
Ramey 2005: women 29.3, men 16.8 hrs/week (ages 18–64) → ATUS 2019: household activities 1.78 hrs/day, all adults 15+ — see the placard

Food's share of spending

% of household expenditure

⚠ Populations differ across the century — 1901 wage-earner families vs modern consumer units; every placard names who was measured.
⚠ The 1950s point is the nearest available survey (CEX 1960–61), stated plainly rather than back-cast.
1960s · Tier A
Food $1,309/yr (24.3% of expenditure). Food away from home $274 (20.9% of food). Local telephone $69/yr.
2020s · Tier A
Food 13.5% of expenditure for 4-person families (~$14,800 of $109,622/yr). Down from 42.54% in 1901.