FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                   THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000
                                

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Jesse McKinnon
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                   Census Bureau Releases Report on 
                      African American Population

  A Commerce Department's Census Bureau report released today brings
together data on a wide range of topics related to the African American
population.
 
  The report, The Black Population in the United States: March 1999,
is a compilation of data released on the Internet last February. The data
are not from Census 2000. The first Census 2000 data on race will be
released beginning March 2001.

  Subjects covered in the printed report include geographic distribution,
age and sex distribution, family type and size, educational attainment,
labor force participation and unemployment, occupation, family income and
poverty status.

  Estimates in the report are based on data collected in the March 1999
Current Population Survey. As in all surveys, the estimates are subject to
sampling and nonsampling error.