Each decade we are asked, “Why don’t you just use the information the government already has about me for the census? Why ask me again?”
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Population | October 26, 2015
Homegrowns and Rolling Stones
Most people in the United States — about 59 percent — live in the state where they were born.
American Community Survey (ACS), Employment and Population | October 23, 2015
Working in America: New Tables Detail Demographics of Work Experience
More than seven in 10 people of traditional working age (16 to 64 years old) worked in 2014; for people 65 and over, at least one in five had worked in the past 12 months. In fact, 12.4 percent of people 70 and over continued to work.
Class of Worker, Employment, Industry and Class of Worker, Industry and Occupation, Labor Force Statistics and Occupation | October 20, 2015
Statisticians: A Goodness of Fit Test
In honor of World Statistics Day, let’s talk about statisticians. While lots of people use statistics in their jobs every day (such as sports writers, stock analysts, weather reporters, biologists, engineers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, practicing physicians, nuclear physicists and lots more), only 45,145 or so (standard deviation 2,150) describe themselves as “statisticians” on the American Community Survey.
Women Now at the Head of the Class, Lead Men in College Attainment
In 1940, under 5 percent of the U.S. population held a bachelor’s degree. Men, at 5.5 percent, were more likely than women at 3.8 percent, to have a college education. Although the 1.7 percentage point gap may appear small, it was big relative to the portion of women with bachelor’s degrees (it would have taken a 45 percent increase among women for them to match men).
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