This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...

New data also shows how the population of children is going down, while the population of elderly Americans is rising.

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The two counties with the highest share of Hispanic and Latino residents in 2024 were Saluda County in the Midlands, an hour ...

Death rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are far higher than reported in official vital statistics, ...

NC’s growing Asian and Hispanic populations are younger on average than white and Black residents, who remain most numerous ...

The All of Us cohort was launched in 2018 to create a database of genetic data that more accurately represented the U.S. — but even it has had a spotty past when it comes to discussing race.

As they age, however, children increasingly view racial characteristics as an integral part of nationality. By the age of 9, we found that children were considering the white English speakers to be ...

Nearly 870,000 people aged 5 and older in the United States spoke Portuguese at home during the five-year period from 2017 to 2021, according to new data released June 3 by the U.S. Census Bureau.

With the reclassification of the 2020 census, Angela Wong Carbone reflects on how the U.S. government’s new rules seek to erase and divide a growing population of mixed-race citizens The post The U.S.

Researchers also must accept the way the surveys’ original designers operationalized various concepts. U.S. Census The United States’ decennial census, which enumerates the entire resident population, ...

Variation among U.S. states The research also found that, even within the same ethnic and racial group, people show genetic variation across different U.S. states.