Questions tagged [census]
An official, often periodic, accounting of the population or other areas (e.g., housing, agriculture, etc.) of a country. Include a country tag.
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Why does the U.S. Census deliberately transfer population to neighboring census blocks?
I am involved a little in both Vermont House redistricting and Burlington City Council redistricting.
I have noticed, at least two census blocks that the Census is clearly over reporting population. ...
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Why does Trump want a citizenship question on the census?
President Trump has recently stated that he may issue an executive order to place a question on the 2020 Census about US residents' citizenship status.
This comes after the Supreme Court has already ...
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What is the rationale for the United Kingdom statistics body not allowing black people to identify as having an English ethnicity in its surveys?
Ethnicity
The concept of ethnicity has been described by the UK's highest court in this way
For a group to constitute an ethnic group... it must, in my opinion, regard itself, and be regarded by ...
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Why doesn't the US Census consider Hispanic a race?
Since the 1970 Census the US Census has tracked Hispanic population under a separate question titled "Hispanic origin", saying "Hispanics may be of any race".
This doesn't make ...
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How much can a US state grow by relative to the nation as a whole and still lose a seat?
Minnesota gained 7.6% over 2010's census, and the US as a whole gained 7.4%. New York gained 4.2%, which is the state that the seat would have gone to according to multiple reports if it had just 90 ...
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Census boycott for political purposes
It occurred to me that if one is a supporter of X party living in a far Y state, one might cast an indirect vote against Y in the house and presidential races by not taking part in the census. Due to ...
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What happens if the US fails to conduct a census?
The Constitution, in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 specifies that a census of the US should be taken every ten years and gives Congress the power to specify the specifics. But what happens if, for ...
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Am I obligated to answer a citizenship question on the U.S. census? [closed]
This question seems to straddle politics/law, but I am going to post it here.
There is a lot in the US news lately about President Trump pushing to have a question on citizenship added to the 2020 US ...
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Who is counted for representation in the US Congress?
I was reading an article about the citizenship question on the decennial US census. The article said that including the citizenship question would discourage immigrants from participation in the ...
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How could a US state, party or rep. go about the process of contesting the loss of a seat in the House of Representatives? (slim census margin)
The title of CNN's New York to lose House seat -- and an Electoral College vote -- after falling 89 residents short in census count sums up the situation as does Axios' States that voted for Biden ...
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When will 2021 UK census results be published?
According to https://www.ons.gov.uk/census
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for planning and carrying out the census for England and Wales. The next census will take place on ...
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Is the Census underreported, and are there corrections?
I am aware that the census is not an exact population measurement as it is a survey.
However, I have been unable to find any information about the estimate of how under reported the census is ...
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Can people be "double counted" in different countries' census?
Our census bureau defines the national "population" as the number of people in the country on census day. This includes citizens, foreign students and workers, and immigrants who do not yet have ...
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Where can I get census data containing details about each person of a particular village in India?
I am doing research on a project. And for that, I need details like- age, jobs, income, etc. of all persons of a particular village in India. I have already searched for census data , but I got only ...
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Is there any example of gender identity replacing sex at birth in a census, outside of UK?
According to this article, gender identity might de facto replace the sex at birth based on responder choice:
Scotland’s chief statistician recently issued guidance stating that
data on sex should ...
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To get more participation and accurate responses on government forms asking for race identification should they change or add to the question? [closed]
Should government forms that ask for race identification ask both what race do you technically belong to and give the accepted definition. Followed by what race do you associate as. Would this allow ...
