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Mon Oct 26 2015

Most people in the United States — about 59 percent — live in the state where they were born.

Fri Oct 23 2015

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.

American Community Survey (ACS), Employment and Population | No comments yet »

Statisticians: A Goodness of Fit Test

Tue Oct 20 2015

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.

Class of Worker, Employment, Industry and Class of Worker, Industry and Occupation, Labor Force Statistics and Occupation | No comments yet »

Wed Oct 07 2015

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).

Education and Women | No comments yet »

A Civic Digital Fellow Tackles State-of-the-Art Data Linkage Challenges

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