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The 2000 Census and Minority Undercount

This week's In the News looks at current debate over the United States year 2000 Census. Political debate concerning US Department of Commerce statistical methods for the up-coming 2000 Census intensified further this month with the passing of bill 472 in the US House of Representatives on April 14. The bill was sponsored by Florida Representative Dan Miller and, according to House democrats,...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/be/1999/0422
Historical Data on the Foreign-Born Population in the United States

On March 9, the Census Bureau released this report, an update of and expansion on the last Census report on the foreign-born population, which was published in 1975. This report contains "decennial census data on several characteristics of the foreign-born population, including country of birth, length of residence in the United States, citizenship and age-sex distribution." Users will also find...

https://www.census.gov/topics/population/foreign-born.html
Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity

This Census 2000 Special Report, prepared by Cynthia A. Brewer (Pennsylvania State University) and Trudy A. Suchan (Census Bureau, Population Division), synthesizes the basic patterns and changes in the US racial population distribution in the last decade. Distribution maps depict White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific...

https://usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/2000/cens...
Asian Population: 2000

Researched and written by Jessica S. Barnes and Claudette E. Bennett of the US Census Bureau, this 12-page report provides a brief introduction to the regional and national distribution of the Asian and Asian-American population in the United States. The report begins with a detailed explanation of the problems presented by the 2000 Census data, largely due to the fact that the questions regarding...

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2002/dec/c2kbr01...
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