The Census Bureau is carrying out research with the intent of improving the housing unit-based method for estimating population totals. One approach is to use the Decennial Census as the baseline for measures and update them annually using American Community Survey (ACS) data to estimate their change since the census year. This study looks at the possibility of using an Empirical Bayes approach...

Regional policy makers and researchers or national policy makers concerned with the regional impact of their decisions rely on the availability of detailed and current small area data to inform their decision making. However, in the past it has been difficult to assess income levels and inequality, wealth, poverty, disadvantage and other socio-economic characteristics at a detailed regional lev...

The United States Constitution requires that an enumeration (or census) of the population be conducted every 10 years to apportion seats in the House of Representatives. Census information is also used to allocate funds and to plan and manage programs. Census 2000 occurs on April 1, 2000, when one-sixth of all American households will be mailed the "long form," containing disability, demographi...

BACKGROUND Although the incidence of legionellosis throughout North America and Europe continues to increase, public health investigations have not been able to identify a common exposure in most cases. Over 80% of cases are sporadic with no known source. To better understand the role of the macro-environment in legionellosis risk, a retrospective ecological study assessed associations between ...

Executive Summary Immigrant and migrant farmworkers from Mexico and other countries are large and growing in number and in importance to U.S. agriculture, but they often are not counted in the decennial census due to high mobility, illegal status, and/or unconventional housing. This report is based on ethnographic research conducted in California's Santa Maria Valley, an active agricultural are...

Figure 3: Poverty density in 1992 based on small area poverty incidence (Figure 2) and the sub-county level rural population statistics from the 2002 housing and population census Figure 8: Densities of major livestock species in Uganda: a) cattle, b) sheep, c) goat and d) pigs, summarised by (rural) sub-county from the 2002 Uganda national housing and population and census (UBOS 2004). Figure ...