Liberian vs Black/African American Married-couple Households

The statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 118,032,066 people shows a weak negative correlation between the proportion of Liberians and percentage of married-couple family households in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of -0.246 and weighted average of 40.7%. Similarly, the statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 565,301,242 people shows a near-perfect negative correlation between the proportion of Blacks/African Americans and percentage of married-couple family households in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of -0.929 and weighted average of 38.5%, a difference of 5.6%.

In terms of married-couple households, the demographic groups most similar to Liberians are Immigrants from Jamaica (40.7%, a difference of 0.010%), Bahamian (40.5%, a difference of 0.35%), West Indian (40.3%, a difference of 0.77%), Immigrants from Liberia (40.3%, a difference of 0.81%), and Immigrants from Zaire (40.1%, a difference of 1.5%). Similarly, the demographic groups most similar to Blacks/African Americans are Immigrants from Somalia (38.4%, a difference of 0.14%), Senegalese (38.6%, a difference of 0.18%), Immigrants from St. Vincent and the Grenadines (38.7%, a difference of 0.51%), Immigrants from West Indies (39.0%, a difference of 1.3%), and Somali (39.0%, a difference of 1.3%).