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    Will the Census Bureau Rewrite its Race and Ethnicity Questions?

    This posting links to a Fact Tank article explaining the Census Bureau’s research into new question wording about race and ethnicity. The bureau is testing a combined question in an attempt to improve response rates and reduce the number of people who check “some other race.”

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    Census: Minority Births Not Quite the Majority Yet

    This links to a FactTank posting about new Census Bureau population estimates by age, race and Hispanic origin for 2013. It finds that the decline in U.S. births after the onset of the Great Recession, especially among Hispanics, slowed the national shift to a majority-minority youth population. Although the Census Bureau said two years ago that minorities were the majority among newborns, the new numbers no longer show that.

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    Appendix 3: About the Surveys

    The data in this report are based on three independent survey administrations with the same randomly selected, nationally representative group of respondents. The first is the center’s largest survey on domestic politics to date: the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, a telephone survey of just over 10,000 Americans. A subset of these respondents has […]

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    As Midterms Near, GOP Leads on Key Issues, Democrats Have a More Positive Image

    Survey Report With less than two weeks before the midterm elections, the Republican Party holds significant leads on several major issues. Voters say the GOP could do a better job than the Democrats on the economy, and the Republicans hold double-digit advantages on both terrorism and the budget deficit. However, the Democrats have advantages on […]

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    Appendix A: Revisions of the Current Population Survey

    The U.S. Census Bureau makes adjustments to the population controls in the Current Population Survey each January. That means the sample weights are revised so that estimates from the CPS agree with pre-specified national population totals by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin and with state level totals by age, sex and race. The annual […]

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    Americans show modest interest in Iraq news, less interest in World Cup

    About the Survey The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted June 26-29, 2014 among a national sample of 1,002 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (501respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 501were interviewed on a cell phone, including 303 who had no […]