What Census Calls Us
Explore the different race, ethnicity and origin categories used in the U.S. decennial census, from the first one in 1790 to the latest count in 2020.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Explore the different race, ethnicity and origin categories used in the U.S. decennial census, from the first one in 1790 to the latest count in 2020.
The most common age was 11 for Hispanics, 27 for blacks and 29 for Asians as of last July. Multiracial Americans were by far the youngest racial or ethnic group.
Across the surveyed countries, opinion varies widely about the value of diversity. But interacting with people of different backgrounds is related to more positive attitudes about the role of diversity in society.
This is the data and methodology behind the data essay, “An early look at the 2020 electorate.” Estimates for 2000-2016 are from Census Bureau microdata provided through IPUMS-USA. In 2000, the decennial census 5% sample was used. In all other years (2008, 2012 and 2016), the 1-year American Community Survey sample was used. Projections for […]
Overall, 293 U.S. counties were majority nonwhite in 2018. Most of these are concentrated in California, the South and on the East Coast.
Migration, racial or ethnic self-identity, and marriage were among the many topics explored at the Population Association of America’s annual meeting last month.
Alba, Richard. 2016. “The Likely Persistence of a White Majority; How Census Bureau statistics have misled thinking about the American future.” Washington, D.C.: The American Prospect. January. Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian V. Luke. 2016. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2016.” Washington, D.C.: National Center for Health Statistics. […]
Millennials trail Baby Boomers and Generation Xers in the number of households they head. But Millennial-run households represent the largest group in some key categories, such as the number in poverty or the number headed by a single mother.
There are wide gaps between men and women working in science, technology, engineering and math jobs when it comes to perceptions of fair treatment for women at work and experiences of workplace discrimination. Women in STEM jobs are much more likely than men in such jobs to say they have experienced discrimination at work because […]
One-in-seven U.S. infants were multiracial or multiethnic in 2015, nearly triple the share in 1980.
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