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    II. Metropolitan Area Diversity

    Even though about two-thirds of all Hispanics nationwide are of Mexican origin, in many of the nation’s metropolitan areas Mexicans are not the largest Hispanic-origin group. For example, Puerto Ricans are the largest Hispanic-origin group in the New York area and Cubans are the largest in the Miami area. And in the Washington D.C. metropolitan […]

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    More Data on Mexicans and Other Hispanic-Origin Groups

    The Pew Hispanic Center has just published a report, profiles and an interactive graphic about major Hispanic country-of-origin populations nationally and in the 30 metropolitan areas with the largest Latino populations.

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    Methodology

    This study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and Social & Demographic Trends analyzed news coverage of African Americans during a 12-month time period, February 16, 2009 – February 15, 2010.  The analysis is based on coding conducted as part of PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI). During this period, […]

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    V. The GED among Hispanics

    Some Hispanic adults are more likely than others to have a GED (Table 3). More Hispanic males (4%) than females (3%) have a GED. Hispanic adults who speak only English at home or speak English “very well” are more likely to have a GED (5%) than Hispanics with limited English speaking skills (3%). The language […]

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    U.S. Hispanics by Country of Origin

    The Pew Hispanic Center has released 10 statistical profiles of U.S. Hispanics by their country of origin, based on self-described family ancestry or place of birth in response to questions on the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

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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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