What Do We Know About The Undercount of Children?

There is a pressing need for statistics to inform policy makers of the size and characteristics of the nation's children.

How Does POSSLQ Measure Up?

An overview of the indirect and direct methods used to measure cohabitation prevalence.

Is Childlessness Among American Women on the Rise?

Examines the trends in childlessness from 1980 to 1998 and identifies which socioeconomic groups have experienced the most significant changes.

Racial-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Cohabitation and Marriage

Explores the relationship between earnings and cohabitation as well as other marital statuses across racial-ethnic groups for men and women.

Evaluation of Relationship, Marital Status, and Grandparents Items

Examines the items on relationship-to-householder, grandparents-as-caregivers, and marital status using the current version of the Census Unedited File (CUF).

Unbinding the Ties

Assesses current Census Bureau edit procedures for marital status and household relationship among same gender couples.

Are There Differences in Behaviors b/w Naturalized and Native-Born?

The report takes a step by step approach to access differences in voting behavior between immigrants and native-born Americans.

Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign Born Population: 1850-1990

This working paper presents selected decennial census data on the foreign-born population of the United States from 1850 to 1990.

Women's Labor Force Attachment Patterns and Maternity Leave

A review of recent literature on women's labor force attachment and maternity leave.