Questions tagged [demographics]
Information about a given population. Use this tag to discuss population statistics
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Why did incumbent House Democrats seem to outperform Biden among Hispanics?
It has come to my attention that Biden has underperformed Democrats' usual margins with Hispanic voters. He won their votes (as a group, remember: Hispanics are not a monolith and come from different ...
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What caused a drastic reduction in the population of ethnic Tatars in the Russian Federation?
I compared the Russian census of 2010 to the recently released census of 2020/2021.
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Does the government of South Korea have any plans to address their fertility rate, which is currently the lowest in the world?
South Korea currently has a fertility rate of 0.84, which is the lowest in the world and significantly below the minimum required to sustain their population. Given this strong reduction, does their ...
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How effective is the fight against skewed sex ratio in India?
Sex ratio is the ratio between female births and male births during a given period in a given area. The sex ratio "naturally" observed in most populations is between 900 and 1000 girls for ...
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How can one distinguish between "Ethnic Russians" and "mostly Russian-speaking Ethnic Ukrainians"?
According to a multi-million-views talk of John Mearsheimer (2015), the "ethno-linguistic map of Ukraine" looked like this.
There's no source given in the talk for the map and I've not seen ...
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How can a country balance its demographics ethically and morally? [closed]
As a kind of follow-up from this question, I have another question.
How can a country balance its demographics ethically and morally?
Of course, mass genocide and rapes are some of the ways, but they ...
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How much of Democrats' advantage with young voters is because of race/ethnicity?
Democrats in the United States have done better with young voters than in the past, and that gap appears to be widening. However, data suggests that some (though not all) of that gap is because of ...
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Is China suffering increased crime levels or reduced GDP growth from having 17% more men than women in the 15-24 age bracket?
It’s often claimed (for example in What purpose do anti-Polygamy laws serve?) that young men who can’t find a woman will instead engage in violence and other types of anti social behavior.
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Are female police officers one-sixth as likely to kill as their male colleagues?
The incidence of people dying due to use of force by the police is a high profile issue at the moment. Figures about the distribution of these deaths, such as found in this paper, can be compared to ...
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Why don't countries pay exponentially increasing amounts of money for every new child in the family?
Most fertility-encouraging policies that I've seen pay the same amount of money for the 1st/2nd/3rd/etc child. However it seems like a more efficient policy would pay exponentially larger amounts of ...
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Are/were there any countries where rich people have more votes?
Are/were there any countries where richer people have more active votes than poorer people? For example: someone with an income of $5,000/month would have 5x more votes than a person with an income of ...
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Why does Canada require bilingualism in a lot of federal government posts?
In Canada, having fluency in English and French is mandatory (In some important government jobs like prime minister). This is considering that the group of French people in Canada is just about 20% of ...
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Has there been any country that successfully reversed a demographic decline in recent history?
I've seen many news items about how some countries are experiencing demographic decline and have implemented so-and-so policies to counteract the decline, such as:
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Why is Honolulu County less Democratic than the rest of the state?
One thing that is interesting about Hawaii politics is that while the state is solidly Democratic at every level, Hawaii has an interesting divide. Honolulu County is an urban county which is ...
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Has there been any examination of the recent upswing in latino support for Republicans in regards to age?
It's well known that older voters tend to be conservative. It's also known that hispanic immigration to the US really took off in the 1960's, meaning the first big waves of children born to hispanic ...
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Why is the US so religious compared to other Western democracies?
According to the Pew Research Center, around 88% of Americans had at least some belief in a God, with around 63% being "absolutely certain" of this. This is in stark contrast to other comparable ...
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Is there any correlation between the violent crime rate and race in the USA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate
I have a feeling that white-dominated states of the USA have lower murder rates. For example, I checked ...
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How Europeans identify Roma among the Ukrainian refugees [closed]
There have been several reports of discrimination in Poland, Czechia or Germany against refugees of the Ukrainian war who happened to also be ethnically Romani.
I assume that there are no ID documents ...
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What sort of political discussions are US ancestry data used for?
In this question, it came up that the U.S. census, in its community survey, asked people to tell not only about their ethnicity ("race"), but also about the nationality of their ancestors. ...
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How would I find Ancestry/Ethnicity data by state on Census.gov?
I am trying to find out, on a state-by-state (city/county as well, if possible) basis, what the population makeup is based on ancestry/ethnicity (i.e. Polish). For example, "what percentage of ...
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Why aren't (tax exempt) churches allowed to be political, and why not tax all churches?
Politics and religion often intersect in the United States and many other countries. However, churches generally don't support political candidates (though certain religious leaders do because they're ...
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What is the ethnic composition of Russian military forces?
The Russian war in Ukraine has at various points been framed in Russia and in Western media outlets in ethnic terms. Given that Russia is itself a multi-ethnic state, this led me to wonder what ...
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Do self identified independents in the United States tilt conservative compared to non independents?
I have read polls that appear to say that those who don't explicitly back either party are more conservative ideologically than those who do.
A poll by Gallup shows that independents had a 35% ...
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"Some other race vote" in the United States?
Many polls break national election polling down into White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and none of those. However Hispanic is treated as an ethnicity on the Census.
In order to get data on the "some ...
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What measures has Russia taken to combat the declining population problem in the past 15 years?
In 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin directed his nation's parliament to develop a plan to revive the country's falling birthrate. In a speech to parliament on May 10, 2006, Putin called the ...
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What explains Trump's gains with Latino voters in the 2020 US presidential election?
In almost every majority Hispanic county and electoral district, president Donald Trump gained against his 2016 presidential performance, though he lost almost all of these areas again, most by wide ...
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Do American Hispanics' self described racial identification tend to line up with their political views?
In the 2020 US Census, the percentage of Hispanics identifying as white alone dropped by over half. I'm curious about the differences between those that checked white as their race, "some other ...
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What does the wealth distribution among India's lower caste and upper caste look like?
It is well known that UC Hindus own 41% of assets in India when being about 30% of the population, and, the remaining 59% of assets is distributed among the 70% of the UCs. My question is, how exactly ...
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Why is the scale of ethnic conflicts so different in India vs African countries. Does it have to do with democratic institutions?
India and countries of Africa are equally diverse. However almost every African country has been plagued with genocidal level ethnic conflicts and disruptive civil wars. Central African Republic for ...
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What is the practical benefit to a country in having multiculturalism?
Multicultural cities in countries of high ethnic diversity celebrate multiculturalism. Institutes, organisations and general mainstream culture push this notion that multiculturalism brings benefits ...
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How can a welfare state with high taxes survive in the face of an aging population?
I'm thinking of countries with economic and social policies like Germany. We can easily observe that in most developed countries, the birth rates are dipping (surprisingly). To my understanding, it is ...
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Why does the Democratic Party perform well in New England?
A lot has been written about the current demographics of the voter base of the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States. A Google Search of Trump popular white working class will result ...
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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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Are there any scientific studies supporting the political claim that ethnic diversity is a strength?
Barack Obama once said:
America’s diversity is our strength. Our immigration system is broken, but we can’t undermine fundamental principles that define us as a nation in order to fix it. We have to ...
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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?
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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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Demographic with greatest difficulty in maintaining current US Voter ID?
In the US, for persons eligible, the relative costs or feasibility of obtaining, (or if necessary, maintaining), some current valid form of Voter ID varies by situation or condition.
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What framework is used for the ethnicity categories on the ACA Marketplace?
The standard categories used by USA governmental forms that ask for a voluntary disclosure of race or ethnicity include the following: Black or African American, White or Caucasian, American Indian or ...
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Why did postal voting favour Joe Biden so much?
In the recent US presidential election, there were several states which looked almost certain wins for Donald Trump until the postal votes were counted, after which there was a huge swing towards Joe ...
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Ethnicity in the USA [closed]
As a European, I am confused about the use of names for ethnicities in the US. The background of my question is academic (I usually work with quantitative data on ethnicity on other continents, mostly ...
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Which countries forbid gathering certain ethnic/demographic data by the government?
France has a law forbidding the collection of sexual, ethnic, political, religuous, citizen information. Are there other nations where it is impossible to conduct a census or know information about ...
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What racial classifications systems are used for affirmative action in the Republic of South Africa?
Affirmative Action, in the context of race, ethnicity, etc. can cover a variety of measures such as
simple non-discrimination (depending on definitions this might not be classed as "affirmative ...
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Why do Republicans do relatively well with Asian Americans despite distinct ideological and non-racial demographic disdvantages?
On many issues from climate change to gun control, Asian Americans are the most likely to take left wing positions. In addition compared with the rest of the population, even when excluding White ...
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What exactly is "National Origin” with respect to US anti-discrimination laws?
In addition to the more familiar concepts of race, ethnicity, religion, disability, lawful immigration status etc., US anti-discrimination laws typically mention that it is also unlawful to ...
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Do American views on national racial issues fall among party lines when controlling for race?
Polls show that Democrats support "racial justice" ideas like equal prison sentences and slavery reparations at substantially higher rates than Republicans. For example, while reparations is ...
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Can Democrats ask/sue for more majority minority seats?
I was thinking about redistricting after the 2020 census.
I was thinking specifically about the Deep South. I think what they could ask for is to draw extra black majority seats in multiple states ...
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Is there a *political* schism between former Soviet Jews and other Jews in the US?
I want to be as neutral as possible, but since both topics (Jews and politics) are historically inflamatory, I'll caveat that if anyone disagrees, I would welcome constructive suggestions on how to ...
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Do candidates with Hispanic/Asian sounding surnames get extra Democratic support in low-information non-partisan state/local US elections?
It is well known that there are partisan differences in different racial groups in the United States. There are also smaller differences in how men and women tend to vote. White Americans favor ...
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Are there any examples of multicultural mass democracies which don't have ethnic-based party politics?
In the USA, it seems increasingly like the Republican Party is becoming the "White Party" and becoming a vehicle for soft White nationalism, or at least White grievance politics, while the ...
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Why don't more people move to safe seats to run for office in the US?
Three out of eight US voters live in a congressional district represented by the opposite party of who they voted for for president. This figure is true for both Biden and Trump voters.
This makes you ...
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How does Israel decide what DNA is Jewish?
When a person claims to be ethnically Jewish and wants to make Aliyah Israel's immigration authorities may request a DNA test. See this and this.
However I cannot find the details of how it is decided ...
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