vitrine · corridor · pairwise

1980s ↔ 2000s

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 1980s 2000s all corridors

A median home — affordability

1980s ↔ 2000s

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

Budget composition

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.

1980s · Tier A

70.0 male, 77.5 female (73.7 total, all races)

2000s · Tier A

74.3 male, 79.7 female (77.0 total, all races)

Infant mortality

deaths under age 1 per 1,000 live births

1980s · Tier A

12.6 per 1,000 live births

2000s · Tier A

6.9 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.

1980s · Tier A

13.0% (29.3 million people in poverty)

2000s · Tier A

11.3% (31.5 million people in poverty)

Homeownership

% of occupied housing units owner-occupied

Complete plumbing

% of homes with complete plumbing

1980s · Tier A

~97% of homes had complete plumbing (~3% lacked)

2000s · Tier A

~99.5% of homes had complete plumbing (~0.5% lacked)

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.

1980s · Tier A

Central AC 23% (1978 RECS) → total AC 68% (1993 RECS) — see the placard

2000s · Tier A

87% of homes had AC (61% central AC)

Cable television

% of TV households

⚠ The 2010s source reports subscriber counts amid cord-cutting, not a share.

1980s · Tier C

More than 52 million cable customers (50.5% penetration, 1988)

2000s · Tier A

65.3 million basic cable subscribers (~59% of TV households)

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.