vitrine · corridor · pairwise

1990s ↔ 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 1990s 2000s all corridors

A median home — affordability

1990s ↔ 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.

1990s · Tier A

71.8 male, 78.8 female (75.4 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

1990s · Tier A

9.2 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.

1990s · Tier A

13.5% (33.6 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

1990s · Tier A

99% of homes had complete plumbing (1% 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.

1990s · Tier A

68%

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.

1990s · Tier A

59.3% of TV households (55.2M subscribers)

2000s · Tier A

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

Internet at home

% of households

⚠ 1990s–2010s sources report within-decade ranges; the placards carry them and the chart renders the gaps.

1990s · Tier C

~18% (1997) → ~26% (1998) — see the placard

2000s · Tier A

Internet: 46% (2000) → 79% (2009). Broadband: ~5% (2000) → 63% (2009). — see the placard

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.

1990s · Tier D

no reliable record — see the placard

2000s · Tier C

29.3