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    A Conversation With Tariq Ramadan

    European campaigns to ban burqas, the Swiss vote to bar new construction of minarets and attempted terrorist acts in the United States have renewed questions and concerns about the compatibility of Islam with Western society. Swiss-born scholar and philosopher of Islam Tariq Ramadan has written and spoken on the subject, generating widespread debate and reaction. […]

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    Immigration and Hispanics

    One topic area that people often associate with Hispanics is that of immigration. Hispanics make up a plurality, 47.4%, of U.S. immigrants and are steadily becoming a larger proportion of the U.S. population. During these six months, no major immigration policy debate or immigration-related events occurred.  Instead, a steady stream of smaller stories, such as […]

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    How the Population Clock Works

    The population clock on the All Things Census page is derived using national-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which produces estimates of the country’s total resident population and the components that are the building blocks of  demographic change. Those components include births, deaths and net international migration, computed using data from the Census Bureau […]

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    Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change

    A new national survey focuses on American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium. These young people have begun to forge their generational personality: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.

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    Census History: Counting Hispanics

    Despite the long history of Hispanic residents in the United States, there was no systematic effort to count this group separately in the Census until the late 20th century.

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    Survey about Census Attitudes

    This year the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is conducting a series of studies about the public’s knowledge and attitudes about the 2010 U.S. Census.

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    With Growing Awareness of Census, Most Ready to Fill Out Forms

    Overview As forms for the 2010 U.S. Census arrive in households across the nation this week, a new Pew Research Center survey finds nearly universal awareness of the census, with 94% of Americans saying they have heard of the census and 79% having heard something recently about it. Nearly nine-in-ten Americans (87%) now say they […]

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    Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America

    A Pew Hispanic Center report based on a new nationwide survey of Latino youths and on analyses of government data examines the values, attitudes, experiences and self-identity of this generation as it comes of age in America.

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    References

    Bailey, Amanda, and Joseph M. Hayes. “Who’s in Prison? The Changing Demographics of Incarceration,” California Counts 8, no. 1 (2006). Butcher, Kristin F. and Anne Morrison Piehl. “Why are Immigrants’ Incarceration Rates so Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 13229, Cambridge, MA (July 2007). Centers […]

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    IV. Language Use

    “I was at a T.J. Maxx with my Colombian friend, and we were talking in Spanish, and this white person said ‘You’re supposed to speak English in America.’ And I said, ‘Oh really? So you need to learn Spanish because this is a changing country. Get over it.’” —25-year-old Hispanic female “Sometimes we speak Spanish […]