Multi-Race and the 2010 Census
by D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center When final national race counts from the 2010 Census were released last month, they included more than nine million Americans who self-identified as...
View ArticleChallenging the Census
by D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center Now that the 2010 Census numbers have been released for every place in the United States, a number of local officials — including the mayors of New...
View ArticleHow Good is the 2010 Census Count? An Update
by D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center In addition to publishing detailed numbers from the 2010 Census, the Census Bureau has been releasing performance indicators from the count. They...
View ArticleCensus 2010: Household Size Trends
by D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center The average size of U.S. households has been declining for decades, but may have grown in recent years, at least in part because of an increase in...
View ArticleImputation: Adding People to the Census
by D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center When census-takers can’t reach anyone at a particular address or obtain information about occupants in other ways, they sometimes use a last-resort...
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How Accurate Are Counts of Same-Sex Couples?
D’Vera Cohn, senior writer, Pew Research Center The counts and characteristics of same-sex couples are among the most written-about data from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey. Yet, two...
View ArticleHow many U.S. residents were missed in the census?
Q. My wife and I did not receive the 2010 census form and were not polled/interviewed/counted. How many U.S. residents were missed in the census? The 2010 Census certainly did miss some people; in that...
View ArticleCensus Bureau Considers Changing Its Race/Hispanic Questions
The Census Bureau presents new research tomorrow that attempts to address the frequent mismatch between Americans’ self-identity and the race or Hispanic categories they are offered on their census...
View ArticleShould the American Community Survey Be Voluntary?
What would happen if Americans were not required by law to respond to census surveys? This is of interest because Canadian government officials have decided to drop the mandatory long form in next...
View ArticleCensus Bureau Lowers Forecast and ‘Loses’ 39 Million Future Americans
The Census Bureau’s new national population projections released this week forecast markedly lower growth for the nation in the coming decades—especially from immigration—than the last official...
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Hispanic Poverty Rate Highest In New Supplemental Census Measure
For more than a decade, the Census Bureau has been developing an alternative measure of poverty that is intended to better reflect the costs of basic living expenses as well as the resources people...
View ArticleSlideshow: U.S. Hispanic Population Trends
Key findings from the Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2011.
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Lessons from the German census
When the results of the 2011 German census were announced recently, they included an embarrassing error – at least in the demographics world. It showed the German population was 1.5 million people...
View ArticleHow to get census data during the government shutdown
We’ve found that there are still several ways to access government data.
View ArticleIn an historic move, Census Bureau tries electronic outreach
After centuries of using the postal service and in-person visits, U.S. will experiment with contacting people by email or text, pushing them to respond online.
View ArticleChart of the Week: The decline of Yiddish, the rise of Tagalog
Spanish continues to be the most commonly spoken non-English language in the U.S., but other languages have risen and fallen in popularity -- sometimes dramatically -- over the past three decades.
View ArticleU.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity
Many communities, including Hispanics, Arabs and people of mixed race, have said they’re unsure of how to identify themselves on census forms.
View ArticleCensus Bureau explores new Middle East/North Africa ethnic category
Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are asking the Census Bureau to add a new ethnic category for them on forms, and it is one of the changes the bureau is...
View Article‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the...
Latinos are not the only group of Americans who utilize the “some other race” category on the census form—but they are the most likely to do so. In 2010, 6.2% of Americans selected “some other race,”...
View ArticleCensus may change some questions after pushback from public
The U.S. Census Bureau is considering whether to drop some questions that it has used for decades and have been the source of complaints from the public who see them as intrusive or overly burdensome.
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