Word: census
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most important demographic shifts in American history, hundreds of thousands of blacks fled the segregated South in search of jobs, freedom and dignity in the aftermath of World War II. Last week the Census Bureau confirmed that the black exodus has not only halted but been reversed. During the 1980s, the bureau found, the percentage of all African Americans who live in the South increased for the first time in the 20th century, from...
...great return to Dixie is driven by motives much like those that lay behind the earlier migration from the region. It is fueled largely by better- educated men and women under 40 who believe they can make a better life in the South. Explains Larry Long of the Census Bureau: "That's a profile of people who migrate for job opportunities...
...attempt to clarify the murky statistics, the Census Bureau is making a major change in family categories when its decennial count begins in April. For the first time, couples living together will have the option to designate themselves "unmarried partners." The bureau has not yet said whether it will get explicit about the precise sexual and emotional relationship that distinguishes "unmarried partners" from another category in the survey, "housemates-roomma tes." (Those who have to ask can perhaps be assumed to be merely roommates...
...hoping that we will get at the true unmarried-couple situation where there is intimacy between partners," says Arlene Saluter, who studies marriage and family composition for the Census Bureau, "but it will depend on how people view the question...
ACCORDING to the most recent census, Blacks constituted 10.9 percent of the city's population in 1980--slightly less than one-ninth...