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| | INTERRACIAL VOICE - Guest Editorial (Naomi Zack) |
 | | In March 2000, when government began distributing the census forms, the New York Times reported that the five racial categories and their possible combinations would yield sixty-three recognized racial categories, a number that would be doubled by the options in the "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino" category. | | | The lack of either explicitly structured taxonomies or criteria for membership in specific categories suggests that those who composed the census form assumed that Americans have unequivocal and ready answers to questions about their identities in the Spanish/Hispanic/Latino category, and in terms of race. | | | Thus, both the civil rights legislation and revision of immigration laws in the 1960s addressed the rights of individuals to be free of discrimination. |
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http://interracialvoice.com/zack.html
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| | Census 2000 Quick Links |
| | Tables are available for the United States, all states, all governmental units within each state, metropolitan statistical areas, American Indian/Alaska Native/Hawaiian Homeland areas, congressional districts, the non-metropolitan population of the United States, the metropolitan population of the United States, and the population with metropolitan areas of various size classes | | | Demographic Profile U.S. and State Tables (100% and sample) | | | There are 3 separate files for each state. |
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http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/cen2k.html
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| | The 'race' question on the U.S. census is racist - why this is so and what to answer instead. |
| | You must finally ask yourself why a government which is supposed to treat everyone equally under the law needs to know what "race" we all are. | | | Since even free women could not vote, they didn't legally count either.) | | | Most notably, census data was used during the Civil War to identify the number of free and slave African-Americans prior to General Sherman's March to the Sea campaign and during World War II to identify the location of Japanese-Americans in the United States. |
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http://www.sodabob.com/Constitution/Census.asp
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| | Cyndi's List - U.S. - Census |
| | "The goal is to correlate the 1850 census records for Warren County, Tennessee with other types of records which show family connections: marriage, probate, court, land, Bible, Ancestral File, personal GEDCOM files, magazine articles, Internet newsgroup messages, and so forth.". | | | United States - Census - 1810 - Indexes | | | United States - Census - 1820 - Indexes |
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http://www.cyndislist.com/census.htm
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| | Public Law 94-171 (1990 Census) |
| | Detailed file descriptions are available in the technical documentation. | | | The Census Bureau recently released to the Subcommittee on the Census, Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, a copy of the Public Law 94 - 171 data adjusted to reflect the measured net undercounts based on the 1990 Census Post-Enumeration Survey. | | | Prior to this point, these data had not been publicly released except as a national total, as state totals, for cities and counties over 100,000 population, and for congressional districts. |
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http://censtats.census.gov/pl94/pl94.shtml
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| | Census' Race Categories Mirror Social Awareness / Changes in ethnic terms underscore debate over labels |
| | Most individuals in the United States with Latin American roots refer to themselves by a designation of their country of origin, such as Mexican American or Puerto Rican or Salvadoran. | | | Census 2000 questionnaires provided more options under ethnicity than in previous years, and for the first time allowed people to identify themselves with more than one race. | | | "Hispanic" was adopted by the federal government for the census beginning in 1980. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/07/MN174865.DTL
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| | American FactFinder |
| | Kids' Corner - Learn fun facts about your state and take a quiz. | | | The Decennial Census is taken every 10 years to collect information about the people and housing of the United States. | | | The Census Bureau releases first-ever data on daytime populations for cities and counties. |
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http://factfinder.census.gov
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| | The U.S. Census and Arab Americans |
| | Press Releases, AAI in the News and Must Read News | | | In addition, the allocation of hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for the federal, state and municipal programs serving the communities where we live is determined by the results of the Census. | | | Social service, health and other local/state agencies depend on ancestry data for outreach and needs assessments of population groups in their community; civil rights agencies have also required ancestry data to monitor discrimination based on national origin. |
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http://www.aaiusa.org/census.htm
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| | Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States Census Bureau uses the federal government's definitions of race when performing a census. | | | Census 2000 Brief: Race and Hispanic Origin (PDF document) | | | It includes people who indicated their race or races by marking this category or writing in their principal or enrolled tribe, such as Cherokee, Chippewa, Meherrin, or Navajo. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(US_Census)
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| | Illinois QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau |
| | Source U.S. Census Bureau: State and County QuickFacts. | | | (b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories. | | | White persons, not of Hispanic/Latino origin, percent, 2000 |
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http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/17000.html
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| | KIDS COUNT Census Data Online |
| | KIDS COUNT also has a variety of publications. | | | KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children. | | | Raw Data Download delimited text files containing raw data for any or all available regions for your own offline use. |
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http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/census
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| | Geostat Center: Collections: Historical Census Browser |
| | Examine state and county topics for individual census years. | | | Choose a census year to begin examining data: | | | The data and terminology presented in the Historical Census Browser are drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing. |
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http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census
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| | Counting on the Census? |
| | Since the U.S. Constitution first instructed that a slave be counted as only three-fifths of a person, the census has been caught up in America's racial dilemmas. | | | In such a context, where ordinary Americans already feel bewildered by and excluded from politics, the arcane techniques of adjustment would undermine public confidence in this most fundamental function of government. | | | Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics |
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http://www.brookings.org/press/books/census.htm
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| | Census 2000 Gateway |
| | Data highlights, documentation, and FTP access for the U.S., states, counties, places (cities and towns) and more, including Puerto Rico and Island Areas | | | View or download published results from Census 2000 available in Portable Document Format (PDF). | | | Tables showing population change, comparisons with 1990, Race and Hispanic or Latino origin, and other topics for states, counties, and places |
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http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html
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| | Community demographics - ePodunk |
| | Although the Census Bureau considers SF 1 to be the official source of population numbers, the SF 3 numbers are a much more detailed source of information about local areas. | | | This form is distributed to every U.S. household and collects information on age, race, sex, and household type. | | | One consequence of the weighting procedures is that at smaller levels of geography, SF 3 population estimates can be slightly different than SF 1 numbers. |
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http://www.epodunk.com/demographics/footnote.html
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| | Hispanic Business - Past, Present, Future |
| | "Certainly, the U.S. Hispanic market can be characterized as being in a state of dynamic flux, especially during the last 25 years," states the introduction to "Hispanic Consumers in Transition," a book from HispanTelligence, the research service unit of Hispanic Business. | | | Based on Census projections, Hispanics will represent more than one-fifth of the U.S. population by 2030 (see tables). | | | The best-selling book "Megatrends" predicted in 1982 that minority demographics would change the U.S. work force, economy, and political structure. |
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=16372
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| | CenStats Databases |
| | Census of Population and Housing Public Law 94-171 Data Age by Race and Hispanic Origin | | | Building permit statistics on new residential and nonresidential construction for individual municipalities. | | | Census Tract Street Locator is now included in the American FactFinder (based on Census 2000 boundaries) |
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http://censtats.census.gov
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| | Social Science and Government Data Library |
| | SSTF 3, Persons of Hispanic Origin in the US | | | Summary Tape File 3, questions asked of 1 in 6 households weighted to represent the total population. | | | Summary Tape File 1, questions asked of every household. |
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GovData/info
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| | School District Demographics System - Home Page |
| | Description of demographic data from the 1990 Census about children and their living environment, by school district on this website. | | | Use this website to see maps of school districts of interest. | | | View demographic data about children and their living environment, by school district, from Census 2000 on this website. |
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http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds
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