The list of Census questions has changed over the years. The 2020 Census questionnaire was fairly straightforward and unobtrusive, asking how many people lived in the home on 1 April 2020; their gender(s), age(s), race(s), ethnicity; and their relationships to one another. The primary resp...
Our revised race standards still fall short for Indigenous Americans by Robert Maxim, opinion contributor 05/03/24 2:00 PM ET Latino 45 House Democrats call on Census Bureau to address 2020 undercount by Rafael Bernal 04/06/22 10:04 AM ET Technology Harris presses Facebook over c...
The US Conference of Mayors, representing more than 1,400 cities, created a task force specifically to monitor the 2020 census process. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, Georgia, and Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio, Texas, are currently the task force’s chair and co-chair, respective...
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Census change may result in fewer ‘white’ Americans Nov. 22, 2015 A Middle Eastern and North African category will be added to the choices available for questions about race and ethnicity. People descended from places such as Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and ...
The Census Bureau's Diversity Index measures the probability that two people chosen at random will be from different race and ethnicity groups. Explore how each state ranks and see how these estimates have changed over the past decade.
More than a year since the 2020 census began in a remote Alaska village, the first numbers to emerge from the nation's once-a-decade headcount were released on Monday, showing how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state is getting
Birth defects are number one cause of death among infants below 1 year of age. The objective is to examine the interaction of sex, race/ethnicity and place of birth on the prevalence of major congenital birth anomalies. We analyzed the data sets produced
Sociodemographic and health-related covariates included age, race/ethnicity, immigration status, employment status, educational level, family income, census region, type of insurance, general health status, and the number of comorbidities. We also analyzed the primary outcome in subgroups: racial/ethnic...
Analyses were conducted in 2021 using Stata 15.1, weighting data to approximate the American Community Survey by the US Census. Testing was 2-sided, and P < .05 was considered statistically significant. Results Among the 5412 adolescents included in our sample, 50.7% were female and 49.3%...