News on Demography

Poll: Public attitudes toward US census improving

2010-03-16T14:16:31Z

<div id="subtitle">With 2010 census under way, public awareness improving but concerns about intrusion linger</div><div><p>With the 2010 census under way, about 1 in 10 people may not participate in the population count, with many saying they see little personal benefit from the government survey or have concerns that it may be intrusive, according to a poll released Tuesday.</p><p>The Pew Resea...

Taiwan offers cash prize for birth-boosting slogan

2010-03-15T23:15:52Z

<div><p>Taiwan offered one million Taiwan dollars (31,250 US) Tuesday for a catchy slogan to help boost the island's dwindling birth rate, one of the world's lowest.</p><p>"We are seeking a creative slogan that would appeal to the public and make everybody want to have children," an interior ministry statement said.</p><p>Taiwan's authorities have been offerin...

US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect

2010-03-15T13:30:15Z

<div id="subtitle">With money and politics at stake, US census forms arrive in the mail; next few weeks critical</div><div><p>Let the count begin.</p><p>More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government's once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid. Fast-growing s...

CENSUS COUNT

2010-03-15T02:32:34Z

U.S. map shows participation rate in 2000 Census by county

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Common problems when filling out US census forms

2010-03-15T00:45:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Some common problems when filling out US census forms: Household, residence and race</div><div><p>Some common problems when filling out U.S. census forms, which arrive by mail beginning Monday:</p><p>_HOUSEHOLD AND RESIDENCE: These are determined by where people live or sleep most of the time as of April 1. Household members should include babies born on or before April 1, 2010, as we...

Census Let the Count Begin

2010-03-15T01:30:26Z

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2010 file photo, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves stands outside the during a media interview in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik, Alaska. More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday, March 15, 2010, in mailboxes...

U.S. Marines Man Outpost In Restive Helmand Province

2010-03-12T06:33:02Z

KHAN NESHIN, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 11: (FRANCE OUT) A Pashtun boy goat herder smiles on March 11, 2010 near Khan Neshin in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Marines in the area have been assigned to help gather census data for planned Afghan government in the area, and are m...

Census Hispanics

2010-03-10T21:00:51Z

Voto Latino co-founder and actress Rosario Dawson, left, is joined by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund) national census director Nancy Agosto during a news conference at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Center in US are born to minorities each year</div><div><p>Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.</p><p>In fact, demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnu...

Accused Ga. killer uses creative legal argument

2010-03-08T14:45:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Accused Ga. killer counts on Census as part of creative legal argument, wants charges dropped</div><div><p>A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense.</p><p>Floyd Wayne Williams Jr. wants the charges dropped — or at lea...

Census Counting Students

2010-02-27T12:31:21Z

In this Jan. 15, 2010 photo, students at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn., walk across a skyway past a poster reminding motorists of the 2010 census. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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Universities push to get students in Census 2010

2010-02-27T12:30:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Universities push to get all students counted in 2010 Census, with federal funding at stake</div><div><p>It was 5 p.m. in the lobby of the library of Metropolitan State University, and Clara Ware was sitting behind a table covered with pens, notepads and buttons with the Census 2010 logo, calling out like a sidesh...

Caribbeans urged to write in ancestry on US Census

2010-02-24T09:15:28Z

<div id="subtitle">With no category of their own, Caribbeans need many boxes to ID race, ethnicity on US Census</div><div><p>Identify yourself as being of "Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin" on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire, and you will get to be more specific about your ancestry, such as Mexican-American, Cuban or Puerto Rican.</p><p&g...

Illegal immigrants numbers rise in Southeast

2010-02-23T14:15:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Illegal immigrant population in Georgia doubles, confirms changing migration trends</div><div><p>When the Olympic Games came to Atlanta in 1996, a building boom transformed the landscape of downtown and brought with it an influx of Latino immigrants — both legal and illegal.</p><p>In the years since, the number of illegal immigrants living in Georgia ...

Census Hurricane Ike

2010-02-17T15:46:30Z

FILE - This Sept. 24, 2008, file photo shows Donna Hanson as she pauses to look at an item recovered from debris left where her home once stood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. Galveston, worried millions could be lost if Census shows post-Ike population drop, had asked C...

Census concerned about misleading mailings

2010-02-22T10:05:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Citing misleading mailings, House Democrats push tighter restrictions on use of census name</div><div><p>Republican groups are raising money under the guise of the U.S. Census Bureau, leaving the government's people-counters worried that a flurry of misleading letters could make some Americans less likely to respond to the real thing.</p>&am...

Gov't buys $2.5M in Super Bowl ads to boost census

2010-02-22T11:22:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Gov't tells US residents to stand up and be counted, spends $2.5M to get message on Super Bowl</div><div><p>Faced with record levels of red ink into the foreseeable future, Washington is spending $2.5 million to create buzz for the census — by advertising during the Super Bowl.</p><p...

Census chief tries easing immigrant fears in Texas

2010-02-22T12:51:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Census director urges fearful residents in Texas 'colonia' to take part in population count</div><div><p>Police cars and large white vans rumbled down the unpaved road toward the ramshackle houses, where illegal immigrants are among hundreds living in a slapdash neighborhood, or colonia, called San Carlos.</p><p>U.S. census data won't be used against them, including gaps in outreach and foreign language guides that refer to the decennial count as an investigation.</p><p>With...

Alaska Census Launch

2010-01-25T14:46:08Z

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves arrives in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik, Alaska in a dogsled driven by Noorvik resident Brian Coffin, 11,, Monday, Jan 25, 2010. Groves came to the village to formally launch the nation's 2010 count of