Several new and forthcoming books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) can now be read online through NAP's OpenBook feature, that allows readers to view full text of books (.html).

On March 9, the Census Bureau released this report, an update of and expansion on the last Census report on the foreign-born population, which was published in 1975. This report contains "decennial census data on several characteristics of the foreign-born population, including country of birth, length of residence in the United States, citizenship and age-sex distribution." Users will also find...

The US Census Bureau has released a report which demonstrates that "traditional families" (married couples with children) have begun to stabilize as a percentage of all families in the 1990s, and the growth of single-parent families has slowed. Most of the information in the report comes from the March 1997 Current Population Survey. Users may download the full report as well as detailed tables in...

Part of the Historical Census Projects at the University of Minnesota and funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the IPUMS consists of twenty-five high-precision samples of the American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created specifically for this database. The twenty five samples span the censuses of 1850...

Recently, the US Census Bureau posted new data from the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data show that the "nuclear family rebound[ed]" from 1991 to 1996, increasing from 51 percent of American households to 56 percent. The 1996 data is posted in .pdf, Excel, and ASCII formats. The 1991 data is in .pdf format only.

This Census 2000 Special Report, prepared by Cynthia A. Brewer (Pennsylvania State University) and Trudy A. Suchan (Census Bureau, Population Division), synthesizes the basic patterns and changes in the US racial population distribution in the last decade. Distribution maps depict White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific...

Since 1790, a US population tally has been administered and recorded every ten years. Measuring America, recently released by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau, documents this census of population from its initial start in 1790, when marshals counted 3.9 million US residents, to the year 2000, when the census totaled 281.4 million residents. This 149-page report traces the changes and growth...

National Population estimates have been updated through 1997 for age group, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Updated estimates for detailed population variables are also available. Data series can be monthly, quarterly, or annual.

Policy makers, grant writers, and public health researchers may be interested in the Neighborhood Atlas, an interactive resource that allows visitors to review the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) of neighborhoods across the United States. The ADI is a numerical measure of public health that was developed by the Health Resources and Service Administration. More recently, a team headed by Amy Kind of...

March 8, 2001, the Census Bureau released the first official figures from the 2000 census. Figures for New Jersey, Mississippi, Virginia and Wisconsin were released to demonstrate the impact of allowing respondents to indicate more than one race on their census forms (there were 63 race options). The largest gains were among Asian and Hispanic Americans, with Hispanic populations in the latter...