POSSLQ (pronounced /ˈpɒsəlkjuː/) is abbreviation (or acronym) for "Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters," a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households. Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are Abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title) is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census Cohabitation is when people live together in an emotionally- and/or physically- Intimate relationship. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
After the 1980 Census, against all odds, the term gained currency in the wider culture for a time, with CBS commentator Charles Osgood memorably composing a verse which began
- There's nothing that I wouldn't do
- If you would be my POSSLQ
- You live with me and I with you,
- And you will be my POSSLQ. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Charles Osgood (born Charles Osgood Wood III on January 8, 1933) is a Radio and Television commentator in the United States.
- I'll be your friend and so much more;
- That's what a POSSLQ is for.
Elliot Sperber, the writer of the Hartford Courant's weekly cryptogram, invented a cryptogram that (when solved) said:
- "Roses are Red,
- Violets are Blue,
- Won't you be my POSSLQ?"
After demographers observed the increasing frequency of cohabitation over the 1980s, the Census Bureau began directly asking respondents to their major surveys whether they were "unmarried partners," thus making obsolete the old method of counting cohabitors, which involved a series of assumptions about "Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. A cryptogram is a type of puzzle which consists of a short piece of encrypted text " The category "unmarried partner" first appeared in the 1990 Census, and was incorporated into the monthly Current Population Survey starting in 1995. The Current Population Survey (CPS is a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS By the late 1990s, the term had fallen out of general usage, and returned to being a specialized term for demographers. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Demography is the statistical study of all Populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic population that is one that changes over
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- "How Does POSSLQ Measure Up? Historical Estimates of Cohabitation" (1999), a US Census Bureau working paper. Cohabitation is when people live together in an emotionally- and/or physically- Intimate relationship. Common-law marriage (or Common law marriage) sometimes called de facto marriage, informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute NOTICE TO WOULD-BE-ROMEOS***************
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