High Achieving Areas in the 2010 Census
At least 10% of the nation's counties have exceeded their 2000 Census mail participation rates by at least five percentage points.
At least 10% of the nation's counties have exceeded their 2000 Census mail participation rates by at least five percentage points.
A New York Times/CBS poll of Tea Party supporters finds that this group "actually are just as likely as Americans as a whole to have returned their census forms, though some conservative leaders have urged a boycott."
Maryland has become the first state in the nation to make plans to count prisoners at their last known home addresses, not their prison addresses, for purposes of redrawing federal, state and local legislative districts.
A new analysis of 2010 Census participation rates so far has found wide variation from one city to the next in the degree to which race and ethnic characteristics predict response rates.
Stories about the 2010 Census account for a growing -- albeit small -- fraction of U.S. news coverage, according to statistics compiled by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Areas of the country that the Census Bureau has deemed "hard to count" have below-average response rates in the 2010 Census so far, according to a new analysis of participation rates.
Foreign-born Hispanics know more about the 2010 Census than their U.S.-born counterparts, and are more likely to say that they have participated or definitely will, according to a nationwide survey released today.
The Pew Hispanic Center's statistical profiles of Hispanics and foreign-born U.S. residents have been updated using 2008 data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
The Census Bureau's national map and statistics showing detailed daily participation rates in the 2010 Census is being picked up by journalists around the country in various ways.
The Census Bureau has rolled out the first set of numbers showing the 2010 Census mail participation rate for communities, states and the nation.