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Demographics of the U.S.: Trends and Projections - 2nd ed.
New Strategist Publications, Inc., Jan 2002, Pages: 480
'A reference book for those seeking a perspective on the many changes in American life over the past 50 years.' --Business Horizons
Demographics of the U.S.: Trends and Projections is a reference book of historical statistics covering the years 1950 to 2000 and an archive of the socioeconomic trends of the last half of the twentieth century. It collects in one volume much of the demographic data that can be found only hit or miss elsewhere. New to this edition of Demographics of the U.S. is more comprehensive coverage of historical statistics, including single-year data on many topics, such as school enrollment, SAT scores, hospital admissions, Aids victims, employment status of men and women, living arrangements of children, marital status, and geographical mobility. Also new to this edition are exclusive New Strategist projections of the population by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin to the year 2010 based on 2000 census counts-projections that are not yet available from the Census Bureau.
Whenever possible, Demographics of the U.S.: Trends and Projections presents data from 1950 to the latest available year, including projections if they are available. Because the 2000 census counted 6 million more Americans than demographers had predicted, the Census Bureau's population projections, produced several years earlier, instantly became obsolete. The bureau has not yet released new projections. To make up for the loss, New Strategist produced its own, exclusive population projections for Demographics of the U.S. These projections, based on 2000 census counts and shown in the Population chapter, reveal the size and shape of the U.S. population in 2010 by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin.
Demographics of the U.S.: Trends and Projections is designed for easy use. It is divided into tenchapters, organized alphabetically: Attitudes and Behavior, Education, Health, Housing, Income, Labor Force, Living Arrangements, Population, Spending, and Wealth.
Most of the tables in the book are based on data published online or in a variety of printed volumes by the federal government, in particular the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Federal Reserve Board. The federal government continues to be the best source of up-to-date, reliable information on the changing characteristics of Americans.
To explore changes in attitudes, New Strategist extracted data from the nationally representative General Social Survey of the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. Norc conducts the biennial survey through face-to-face interviews with an independently drawn, representative sample of 1,500 to 3,000 noninstitutionalized English-speaking people aged 18 or older who live in the United States. The GSS is one of the best sources of attitudinal data on Americans available today, and because the same, or similar, questions have been asked every year or two since the early 1970s, it is also one of the best longitudinal sources of attitudinal data.
During the past few years, dramatic technological change has reshaped the demographic reference industry. The government's detailed demographic data, once widely available to all in printed reports, are now accessible only to Internet users or in unpublished tables obtained by contacting the appropriate government agency with a specific request. In the rush to put the latest data online, historical statistics have been left behind-either they are missing altogether or they are available only for selected years or data sets. Consequently, many historical data are now out of reach unless researchers are willing to travel to libraries that have not yet discarded older references. In many ways, the shift from printed reports to web sites has made demographic analysis a bigger chore. It can be more time-consuming than ever to get no-nonsense answers to questions about the changing demographics of Americans.
While most of the data published here are produced by the government, the tables in Demographics of the U.S.: Trends and Projections are not simply reprints of government spreadsheets, as is the case in many other reference books. Instead, New Strategist's statisticians individually compiled and created each of the book's tables, with calculations designed to reveal the stories behind the numbers.
Each chapter of Demographics of the U.S.: Trends and Projections includes the demographic and lifestyle data most important to researchers. A page of text accompanies many of the tables, analyzing the data and highlighting the trends. Readers who want more statistical detail than the tables provide can plumb the original source, listed at the bottom of each table.
The book contains a lengthy table list to help researchers locate the information they need. For a more detailed search, use the index at the back of the book. Also at the back of the book is the glossary, which defines the terms commonly used in tables and text. A list of telephone and Internet contacts also appears at the end of the book, allowing researchers to access government specialists and web sites.
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