MEASUREMENT OF RACE HAS BEEN A CRITICAL PART of census-taking from the first census in 1790; measurement of ethnicity and national origin in one or another form goes back to the 1850 census. Today, ...

Every 10 years Americans respond to a federal census in which they are asked to discuss everything from their income to their personal interests. The results of this study, which measures the ...

WASHINGTON -- Preliminary numbers released Wednesday show the U.S. Census Bureau achieved a more accurate count last year than in 1990, but acting Director William Barron said he still hasn't ruled ...

WASHINGTON --America's foreign-born population shot up to 31 million in the year 2000, an increase of 57 percent over a decade earlier, the U.S. Census Bureau said yesterday as it released final ...

Seattle remains a highly segregated city where whites and minorities live in neighborhoods apart, according to 2000 Census data and a new national study. While segregation in Seattle has declined ...

These charts show the significant increase in the Latino/Hispanic population between 2000 and 2010 based on numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Latino/Hispanic population more than doubled in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Linda Mahdesian grew up feeling a part of the black Chicago neighborhood in which she was raised. But as the daughter of a black father and white mother, she never felt completely at ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Long after the headlines disappear, researchers will be mining the trove of data from Census 2000 ...

As the new figures from the 2000 census trickle out of Washington and government demographers exclaim over “shifting populations” and “expanding pockets of diversity,” some activists and sociologists ...

As the 1980s became the 1990s, the U.S. Census Bureau ran a TV advertising campaign that musically urged Americans: “Answer the Census, we’re counting on you.” But some in government, and the legal ...

Some experts are arguing that it’s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count. By Michael Wines WASHINGTON — Beyond the ...