Line chart showing share of women with and without children who live with at least one other adult, January 2020–January 2022. Many single women moved in with another adult at the start of the pandemic, whether or not they had kids.
We show data for women ages 25-54, a standard demographic used for employment analysis due to likely completion of studies and unlikely engagement in retirement. We only show data for mothers with school-age children (between the ages of 5-17) since they are more likely to have been affected by lack of child care, though the overarching trend was similar regardless of a child’s age.

Sources: University of Minnesota Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey; Misty Heggeness; Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Chart: Jasmine Mithani & Chabeli CarrazanaThe 19th・19thnews.org