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    V. Economic Characteristics

    Hispanic students enrolled in public schools are more likely than their non-Hispanic counterparts to reside in households at or below the poverty level,[11. numoffset=”11″ For detailed information on how poverty status is determined, please see http://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variableDescription.do?mnemonic=POVERTY. Due to the way in which the IPUMS assigns poverty values, these data will differ from those that might […]

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    IV. Sources of Information on Health and Health Care

    While preventive care and regular health monitoring are essential in maintaining good long-term health and limiting the severity of chronic diseases, more than one in four Hispanics say they received no information regarding health or health care from doctors or health care professionals in the past year. This group includes a wide cross-section of the […]

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    IV. Language

    About 10.2 million of all students enrolled in public schools, or slightly more than 20%, speak a language other than English at home. After English, the most commonly spoken language in the home is Spanish, followed by Chinese, French, and Hindi and related dialects. The share of Hispanic students who speak a language other than […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    The Pew Hispanic Center conducted a public opinion survey among people of Latino background or descent that was designed to elicit opinions on issues related to health care. To fully represent the opinions of Latino people living in the United States, ICR conducted interviews with a statistically representative sample of Latinos so they could be […]

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    III. Utilization of a Usual Health Care Provider and Satisfaction with Health Care

    According to the survey results, more than one in four Latinos (27 percent) lack a regular health care provider.* Latinos are a diverse population, and a variety of factors need to be considered to understand why some have regular providers and some don’t. Immigration and assimilation are factors, as large shares of Latinos born outside […]

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    Appendix 1: Survey Methodology

    Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by ICR/International Communications Research, an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 2,015 Latino respondents age 18 and older, from June 9 through July 13, 2008. Of those respondents, 711 were native born (including Puerto Rico) and 1,302 were foreign born (excluding Puerto […]

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    Religion and Politics ’08: Barack Obama

    Background Hometown Honolulu, Hawaii Age 48 Religion United Church of Christ Education Harvard Law School, J.D., 1991 Columbia University, B.A., 1983 Candidate Website www.barackobama.com Candidacy Status Formally declared candidacy Feb. 10, 2007. Elected president Nov. 4, 2008 Political Experience U.S. Senator from Illinois, 2005-present Illinois State Senator, 1997-2004 Professional Experience Lecturer, University of Chicago Law […]

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    III. 2008 Candidate Preference and Demographics

    Support for Obama is strong across all demographic groups of Hispanic registered voters, with few significant differences by gender, age, education, income or immigrant status. Religion is the only major demographic category in which there are significantly different levels of support among Hispanics. Among Latino registered voters who identify with a religion, McCain’s support is […]

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    Anthropology of YouTube

    The Library of Congress invited Michael Wesch to deliver the third of four “Digital Natives” lectures. Wesch, creator of the world-famous YouTube video, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” presented the “Anthropology of YouTube” to a packed, fascinated …

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    II. Hispanic Voter Participation Trends

    Because Latinos are more likely than other Americans to either be under age 18, or non-citizens, or both, their share of the eligible electorate (8.9% in 2007) lags behind their share of the total U.S. population (15.5% in 2007).[2. numoffset=”2″ These results are based on tabulations from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey from November […]