Second-generation Americans—the 20 million adult U.S.-born children of immigrants—are substantially better off than immigrants themselves on key measures of socioeconomic attainment, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. They have higher incomes; more are college graduates and homeowners; and fewer live in poverty. In […] Read more »
Census Bureau considers cost-saving measures
The Census Bureau is studying ways to run a more cost-effective census in 2020, anticipating that a repeat of its 2010 data-collection efforts would lead to unsustainable costs. The options include using online surveys, increasing use of federal administrative records to compile data, using a more targeted approach to address […] Read more »
Counting the Seasonal Surges
… Typical population counts are based on assuming that each American has one place of residence — an assumption that is becoming increasingly problematic, researchers say, as more people travel for work, own second homes or otherwise split time among two or more places. … The Census Bureau faces obstacles […] Read more »
Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Research
The U.S. Census Bureau released research today from its 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment, which provides a comparison of different census questionnaire design strategies for collecting census data on race and Hispanic origin. [cont.] U.S. Census Bureau Read more »
The Rise of Residential Segregation by Income
Residential segregation by income has increased during the past three decades across the United States and in 27 of the nation’s 30 largest major metropolitan areas , according to a new analysis of census tract and household income data by the Pew Research Center. [cont.] Paul Taylor and Richard Fry, […] Read more »
Census surveys: Information that we need
… All developed countries have some method of generating timely statistics on basic social and demographic attributes of neighborhoods, small communities and counties. … The central statistical tool for such small areas in the United States is the American Community Survey. … The economic census, a tool critical to gathering […] Read more »