Generation X: America’s neglected ‘middle child’
Generation X has a gripe with pulse takers, zeitgeist keepers, and population counters. We keep squeezing them out of the frame.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Generation X has a gripe with pulse takers, zeitgeist keepers, and population counters. We keep squeezing them out of the frame.
This links to a FactTank posting explaining how two government agencies–the Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics–have different answers to the question of whether most U.S. babies are minorities. The agencies use different measures, and different methods.
Two years ago, the Census Bureau announced the nation had reached a new demographic tipping point. But new data shows that tipping point may not have arrived yet.
This links to a FactTank posting about the Census Bureau’s plans to categorize same-sex spouses as married couples, a change from its current practice of counting them as unmarried couples.
The new approach reflects the bureau’s evolving policy on reporting household relationships, as it tries to keep pace with social change.
College graduates report about the same amount of personal satisfaction and economic well-being later in life whether they attended a private or public college.