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美国人口普查 Census in America_英语作文

美国人口普查 Census in America_英语作文

美国人口普查Census in AmericaCensus is very important for every country, it can tell the changes of the population and help the government to carry out some policies. In America, the government counts the population every ten years and the latest census was in 2010. The results of the census show some changes in this country. First, the growth of the population is very slow. It is obvious that the more rich, the less children people want to have, because they want to focus their energy on the career and when they have time, they would rather enjoy the personal hour. Second, the number of immigrants is increasing, which will become the majority of American population. What’s more, the immigrants give birth to children more than the local people do, so it has been predicted that in the future, the gene of blond hair and blue eyes will disappear.人口普查对每个国家都非常重要,它可以显示人口的变化,帮助政府实施一些政策。

一些统计数据的网址

一些统计数据的网址

一些统计数据的网址1.美国经济分析局Bearfacts (Bureau of Economic Analysis)/remd/index.htm该站点由美国商业部下属的经济分析局(BEA)建立。

BEA的功能主要是分析和综合大量数据以便创造美国经济的一个连贯模式。

BEA还对国际、国家和地区的经济进行预算和分析。

其中以对国民生产总值(GDP)的预算最为著名。

2.商业统计(美国人口普查局)Business Statistics (US Census Bureau)/epcd/www/sb001.htm该站点上有便于使用的关于公司、就业、薪水和收据的信息。

按照产业类目排列。

3.人口普查局经济信息Census Bureau Economic Information/ftp/pub/econ/www/是美国人口统计局的官方站点。

上面有大量关于美国经济的统计数据。

如美国经济指标;农业、制造业、建筑业、农村和城市的数据;美国商业统计、当前工业报告、经济统计和调查;数据访问工具等等。

4.当前工业报告(美国人口普查局)Current Industrial Reports (US Census Bureau)/pub/cir/www/index.html这里可以看到系列工业报告。

电子数据是唯一的形式,可能要收取一定费用。

5.网上数据(加州大学圣迭戈分校)Data on the Net (UC San Diego )/idata/收集了关于美国经济和其它数据的站点,有注释,可检索。

6.经济数据和链接(美国加州大学Fresno分校)Econ Data & Links (CAL State Fresno)/Economics/econ_EDL.htm由美国加州大学Fresno分校建立。

该站点提供了大量表格和统计数据,以及很多相关站点的链接,内容从收入、财富到贫困问题都有。

7.经济数据(国际)EconData (International)/EdRes/Top.../International/马里兰大学提供的国际性EconData时间序列数据库。

机器学习_US Census Data (1990) Data Set(美国人口普查数据(1990)数据集)

机器学习_US Census Data (1990) Data Set(美国人口普查数据(1990)数据集)

US Census Data (1990) Data Set(美国人口普查数据(1990)数据集)数据摘要:The US Census1990raw data set contains a one percent sample of the Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) person records drawn from the full 1990 census sample.中文关键词:多变量,聚类,UCI,人口普查,美国,英文关键词:Multivariate,Clustering,UCI,Census,US,数据格式:TEXT数据用途:This data set is used for clustering数据详细介绍:US Census Data (1990) Data SetAbstract: The USCensus1990raw data set contains a one percent sample of the Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) person records drawn from the full 1990 census sample.Source:The USCensus1990raw data set was obtained from the (U.S. Department of Commerce) Census Bureau website using the Data Extraction System. This system can be found at /DES/www/des.html.Donors:Chris Meek, Microsoft, meek '@' Bo Thiesson, Microsoft, thiesson '@' David Heckerman, Microsoft, heckerma '@' Data Set Information:The data was collected as part of the 1990 census.There are 68 categorical attributes. This data set was derived from the USCensus1990raw data set. The attributes are listed in the file USCensus1990.attributes.txt (repeated below) and the coding for the values is described below. Many of the less useful attributes in the original data set have been dropped, the few continuous variables have been discretized and the few discrete variables that have a large number of possible values have been collapsed to have fewer possible values.More specifically the USCensus1990 data set was obtained from the USCensus1990raw data set by the following sequence of operations;- Randomization: The order of the cases in the original USCensus1990raw data set were randomly permuted.- Selection of attributes: The 68 attributes included in the data set are given below. In the USCensus1990 data set we have added a single letter prefix to the original name. We add the letter 'i' to indicate that the original attribute values are used and 'd' to indicate that originalattribute values for each case have been mapped to new values (the precise mapping is described below).Hierarchies of values are provided in the file USCensus1990raw.coding.htm and the mapping functions used to transform the USCensus1990raw to the USCensus1990 data sets are giving in the file USCensus1990.mapping.sql.The data is contained in a file called USCensus1990.data.txt. The first row contains the list of attributes. The first attribute is a caseid and should be ignored during analysis. The data is comma delimited with one case per row.Attribute Information:--------------------------------------------------------------Old Variable New Variable--------------------------------------------------------------Age dAgeAncstry1 dAncstry1Ancstry2 dAncstry2Avail iAvailCitizen iCitizenClass iClassDepart dDepartDisabl1 iDisabl1Disabl2 iDisabl2English iEnglishFeb55 iFeb55Fertil iFertilHispanic dHispanicHour89 dHour89Hours dHoursImmigr iImmigrIncome1 dIncome1Income2 dIncome2Income3 dIncome3Income4 dIncome4Income5 dIncome5Income6 dIncome6Income7 dIncome7Income8 dIncome8Industry dIndustryKorean iKoreanLang1 iLang1Looking iLookingMarital iMaritalMay75880 iMay75880Means iMeansMilitary iMilitaryMobility iMobilityMobillim iMobillimOccup dOccupOthrserv iOthrservPerscare iPerscarePOB dPOBPoverty dPovertyPwgt1 dPwgt1Ragechld iRagechldRearning dRearningRelat1 iRelat1Relat2 iRelat2Remplpar iRemplparRiders iRidersRlabor iRlaborRownchld iRownchldRpincome dRpincomeRPOB iRPOBRrelchld iRrelchldRspouse iRspouseRvetserv iRvetservSchool iSchoolSept80 iSept80Sex iSexSubfam1 iSubfam1Subfam2 iSubfam2Tmpabsnt iTmpabsntTravtime dTravtimeVietnam iVietnamWeek89 dWeek89Work89 iWork89Worklwk iWorklwkWWII iWWIIYearsch iYearschYearwrk iYearwrkYrsserv dYrsservMapping: In this step we map all of the old values for variables with prefix 'd' to new values. The mappings for the variables dAncstry1, dAncstry2, dHispanic, dIndustry, dOccup, dPOBwere designed to correspond to a natural coarsening of the original values based on the information in the file coding.htm. The remaining variables are continuous valued variables and the mapping for these variables was chosen to make variables that were fairly uniformly distributed across the states (quantiles). The precise mappings are specified in the file USCensus1990.mapping.sql. This file contains all of T-SQL procedures used to map the variables. These procedures can be used directly in SQLServer to map the original values or translated to some other language.--------------------------------------------------------------Variable Procedure--------------------------------------------------------------dAge discAgedAncstry1 discAncstry1dAncstry2 discAncstry2dHispanic discHispanicdHour89 discHour89dHours discHoursdIncome1 discIncome1dIncome2 discIncome2to8dIncome3 discIncome2to8dIncome4 discIncome2to8dIncome5 discIncome2to8dIncome6 discIncome2to8dIncome7 discIncome2to8dIncome8 discIncome2to8dIndustry discIndustrydOccup discOccupdPOB discPOBdPoverty discPovertydPwgt1 discPwgt1dRearning discRearningdRpincome discRpincomedTravtime discTravtimedWeek89 discWeek89dYrsserv discYrsservRelevant Papers:Meek, Thiesson, and Heckerman (2001), "The Learning Curve Method Applied to Clustering", to appear in The Journal of Machine Learning Research.[Web Link]数据预览:点此下载完整数据集。

2019年高中英语作文-美国人口普查

2019年高中英语作文-美国人口普查
人口普查对每个国家都非常重要,它可以显示人口的变化,帮助政府实施一些政策。在美国,政府每十年就统计人口,最新的人口普查是在20xx年。人口普查的结果显示在这个国家的一些变化。首先,人口的增长速度非常慢。很明显,越有钱的人,想要孩子的越少,因为他们想要把精力放在事业上,当他们有时间了,他们宁愿享受个人时间。第二,移民的数量越来越多,这将成为美国人口的大多数。更重要的是,移民生的孩子比当地人更多,所以根据预言,在未来,金发和蓝眼睛的基因将会消失。
高中Байду номын сангаас语美国人口普查
Census is very important for every country, it can tell the changes of the population and help the government to carry out some policies. In America, the government counts the population every ten years and the latest census was in 2010. The results of the census show some changes in this country. First, the growth of the population is very slow. It is obvious that the more rich, the less children people want to have, because they want to focus their energy on the career and when they have time, they would rather enjoy the personal hour. Second, the number of immigrants is increasing, which will become the majority of American population. What’s more, the immigrants give birth to children more than the local people do, so it has been predicted that in the future, the gene of blond hair and blue eyes will disappear.

美国10年人口普查表格中文对照版Chinese-Simplified

美国10年人口普查表格中文对照版Chinese-Simplified

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w w w 1.2.w w w 在所有适用项上标记 请不要计算离家上大学或参军的人。

请不要计算在监狱、看守所、拘留所等机构内的人。

即使这些人将在离开大学、安养中心/养老院、军队或监狱
等机构后返回这里,请都不要将这些人填写在这个表格里。

不然,他们就可能会被统计两次。

在 2010 年 4 人暂住在这里,请包括这个人。

不然,人口普查就可能会把他漏掉。

人口普查还必须包括没有永久居住地的人,因此:
人口普查局还要在其它机构和地方进行人口统计,因此:
请包括大部分时间都在这里居住和睡觉的所有的人,
包括婴儿。

在 2010 年 4 月 1 房屋里居住或暂住?
除了在第一题已经包括的人以外,是否还有其他人在4月 1 日暂住在这里?
这次人口普查必须统计在回答第 1 题以前,请您按以下规定,计算住在这所房子、公寓或移动式房屋里的人数。

请使用蓝色或黑色笔填写。

这份指南提供了 2010请在这份指南中找到您的答案,然后在寄回填写完毕的 2010人口数 =。

美国人口普查资料

美国人口普查资料

2002年美国人口普查局发布的几份报告2002年美国人口普查局发布的几份报告美国人口普查局报告发表:《美国参考》2002年2-6月;学术交流网/网友学术交流/200 2年7月15日发布;学术交流网/美国统计资料/2002年8月19日重发(一)美国人口普查局从全球角度分析美国人口据美国人口普查局2月6日发布的报告,美国人口为2.81亿,仍是仅次于中国和印度的世界人口第三大国。

2002年2月6日人口普查局参照全球状况分析美国情况并确定老龄化和人口出生率的发展趋势根据商务部人口普查局今天发表的一份分析报告,90年代美国人口增加13%,使其继续保持世界人口第三大国的地位。

根据一份题为《从全球范围看美国人口》的2000年人口普查简报,2000年的美国人口超过除中国(13亿)和印度(10亿)以外的世界任何国家。

世界人口总数为61亿。

人口普查局国际项目中心的负责人彼德·韦说:“一个国家的人口总数只能反映其人口状况的一小方面。

一个国家的人口增长率和年龄-性别结构能说明这个国家所面临的挑战,体现在为儿童和老年人提供医疗保健,让青少年受教育,为年轻人提供工作机会和老年福利等方面。

”美国15岁以下的人口占世界15岁以下总人口的3%,在所有国家中居第四位。

美国的老年人口占世界老年人口总数的8%,在所有国家中居第三位。

这份简报指出了美国和其它发达国家年龄结构的变化。

例如,很多发达国家五岁以下的儿童人数在90年代后期都有所下降。

这份报告说,人口出生率低的国家将在未来的几十年中面临老年人口增加,新劳工人数减少。

美国人口目前占世界人口总数的不到5%,但是美国90年代的增长率是所有其它工业化国家增长率总和的五倍:13%对2.5%。

90年代人口大幅度增长的其它世界大国有:印度,增长率为19%;中国,增长率为11%;尼日利亚,增长率为33%;以及印度尼西亚,增长率为19%。

这些国家和美国增加的人口占90年代全球人口增长总数的将近一半。

解读美2010人口普查

解读美2010人口普查环球时报特约记者李雪报道美国《时代》杂志12月21日发表题为《美国2010年人口普查结果透露何种信息》的文章,从对经济、政治等领域可能产生的影响,对美国2010年人口普查结果进行了深入分析。

总人口首破3亿大关三大原因致增速放缓12月21日,美国人口普查局公布的统计结果显示,截至2010年4月1日,美国总人口达到3亿874万5538人,较2000年的2亿8142万1906人增长9.7%。

这意味着美国总人口有史以来首次突破3亿。

不过,过去十年也是1940年以来美国人口增速最低的十年。

上世纪30年代,经济“大萧条”导致美国人口增速放缓。

分析认为,2000年以来美国人口增速下降主要有三大原因:一是两次经济衰退;二是对于移民的警觉性日益增强;三是海外对于美国的观感日渐恶化。

然而,美国新罕布什尔州立大学人口学教授肯尼思•约翰逊指出:“美国人口增长速度依然很快。

但是这一统计结果显示,过去十年的最后一段时间里,移民进入美国的速度显著放缓。

”与上个千年最后十年的人口增长速度相比,过去十年的人口成长速度显著放缓。

当时(1990年至2000年),美国总人口大增13%。

有分析表示,美国人口成长主要来自于国内新生儿。

据约翰逊教授估计,过去十年新增的约2700万美国人中,1700万为美国国内新生儿,另外1000万新增常住人口则由移民构成。

美国人口普查局局长罗伯特•葛罗夫斯也表示,很难确切地说,是否是经济严重衰退和移民管制更加严格造成美国人口成长趋缓。

他也指出,约60%的人口增长是新生儿,移民仅占40%。

人口日渐西南移加州独占鳌头此次普查的对象是美国50个州和哥伦比亚特区的常住人口。

普查结果显示,从地区看,美国人口日渐向南部和西部转移。

数据显示,过去十年,美国南部和西部人口大量增加,分别增加约1432万人和875万人。

东北部和中西部地区人口也有所增加,但增长速度较慢,分别增加约172万人和253万人。

有分析认为,如果不是经济严重衰退毁损诸如拉斯维加斯和菲尼克斯在内的西部大都市的住房市场,西部和南部的人口增长幅度可能更大。

机器学习_US Census Data (1990) Data Set(美国人口普查数据(1990)数据集)

US Census Data (1990) Data Set(美国人口普查数据(1990)数据集)数据摘要:The US Census1990raw data set contains a one percent sample of the Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) person records drawn from the full 1990 census sample.中文关键词:多变量,聚类,UCI,人口普查,美国,英文关键词:Multivariate,Clustering,UCI,Census,US,数据格式:TEXT数据用途:This data set is used for clustering数据详细介绍:US Census Data (1990) Data SetAbstract: The USCensus1990raw data set contains a one percent sample of the Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) person records drawn from the full 1990 census sample.Source:The USCensus1990raw data set was obtained from the (U.S. Department of Commerce) Census Bureau website using the Data Extraction System. This system can be found at /DES/www/des.html.Donors:Chris Meek, Microsoft, meek '@' Bo Thiesson, Microsoft, thiesson '@' David Heckerman, Microsoft, heckerma '@' Data Set Information:The data was collected as part of the 1990 census.There are 68 categorical attributes. This data set was derived from the USCensus1990raw data set. The attributes are listed in the file USCensus1990.attributes.txt (repeated below) and the coding for the values is described below. Many of the less useful attributes in the original data set have been dropped, the few continuous variables have been discretized and the few discrete variables that have a large number of possible values have been collapsed to have fewer possible values.More specifically the USCensus1990 data set was obtained from the USCensus1990raw data set by the following sequence of operations;- Randomization: The order of the cases in the original USCensus1990raw data set were randomly permuted.- Selection of attributes: The 68 attributes included in the data set are given below. In the USCensus1990 data set we have added a single letter prefix to the original name. We add the letter 'i' to indicate that the original attribute values are used and 'd' to indicate that originalattribute values for each case have been mapped to new values (the precise mapping is described below).Hierarchies of values are provided in the file USCensus1990raw.coding.htm and the mapping functions used to transform the USCensus1990raw to the USCensus1990 data sets are giving in the file USCensus1990.mapping.sql.The data is contained in a file called USCensus1990.data.txt. The first row contains the list of attributes. The first attribute is a caseid and should be ignored during analysis. The data is comma delimited with one case per row.Attribute Information:--------------------------------------------------------------Old Variable New Variable--------------------------------------------------------------Age dAgeAncstry1 dAncstry1Ancstry2 dAncstry2Avail iAvailCitizen iCitizenClass iClassDepart dDepartDisabl1 iDisabl1Disabl2 iDisabl2English iEnglishFeb55 iFeb55Fertil iFertilHispanic dHispanicHour89 dHour89Hours dHoursImmigr iImmigrIncome1 dIncome1Income2 dIncome2Income3 dIncome3Income4 dIncome4Income5 dIncome5Income6 dIncome6Income7 dIncome7Income8 dIncome8Industry dIndustryKorean iKoreanLang1 iLang1Looking iLookingMarital iMaritalMay75880 iMay75880Means iMeansMilitary iMilitaryMobility iMobilityMobillim iMobillimOccup dOccupOthrserv iOthrservPerscare iPerscarePOB dPOBPoverty dPovertyPwgt1 dPwgt1Ragechld iRagechldRearning dRearningRelat1 iRelat1Relat2 iRelat2Remplpar iRemplparRiders iRidersRlabor iRlaborRownchld iRownchldRpincome dRpincomeRPOB iRPOBRrelchld iRrelchldRspouse iRspouseRvetserv iRvetservSchool iSchoolSept80 iSept80Sex iSexSubfam1 iSubfam1Subfam2 iSubfam2Tmpabsnt iTmpabsntTravtime dTravtimeVietnam iVietnamWeek89 dWeek89Work89 iWork89Worklwk iWorklwkWWII iWWIIYearsch iYearschYearwrk iYearwrkYrsserv dYrsservMapping: In this step we map all of the old values for variables with prefix 'd' to new values. The mappings for the variables dAncstry1, dAncstry2, dHispanic, dIndustry, dOccup, dPOBwere designed to correspond to a natural coarsening of the original values based on the information in the file coding.htm. The remaining variables are continuous valued variables and the mapping for these variables was chosen to make variables that were fairly uniformly distributed across the states (quantiles). The precise mappings are specified in the file USCensus1990.mapping.sql. This file contains all of T-SQL procedures used to map the variables. These procedures can be used directly in SQLServer to map the original values or translated to some other language.--------------------------------------------------------------Variable Procedure--------------------------------------------------------------dAge discAgedAncstry1 discAncstry1dAncstry2 discAncstry2dHispanic discHispanicdHour89 discHour89dHours discHoursdIncome1 discIncome1dIncome2 discIncome2to8dIncome3 discIncome2to8dIncome4 discIncome2to8dIncome5 discIncome2to8dIncome6 discIncome2to8dIncome7 discIncome2to8dIncome8 discIncome2to8dIndustry discIndustrydOccup discOccupdPOB discPOBdPoverty discPovertydPwgt1 discPwgt1dRearning discRearningdRpincome discRpincomedTravtime discTravtimedWeek89 discWeek89dYrsserv discYrsservRelevant Papers:Meek, Thiesson, and Heckerman (2001), "The Learning Curve Method Applied to Clustering", to appear in The Journal of Machine Learning Research.[Web Link]数据预览:点此下载完整数据集。

美国贫困线标准2024

美国贫困线标准2024美国贫困线标准2024根据美国国家政府的定义,贫困线是指一个家庭根据其家庭人数和收入水平来确定是否属于贫困人口的标准。

贫困线的制定是为了帮助政府和社会组织了解和解决贫困问题。

1. 根据美国人口普查局(Census Bureau)的定义,2024年贫困线标准的依据是2024年的生活费用指数(Consumer Price Index,CPI)。

根据CPI的测算结果,美国贫困线的定义与家庭人口数量和州际差异相关。

2.单人家庭的贫困线:对于一个成年人而言,其年收入低于12,880美元即被定义为贫困。

这一数字基于饮食、住房、交通、医疗保健、衣物和其他日常开销的消费水平。

3.双人家庭的贫困线:对于一个居住在美国的双人家庭而言,其年收入低于17,420美元即被定义为贫困。

4.三人家庭的贫困线:对于一个居住在美国的三人家庭而言,其年收入低于21,960美元即被定义为贫困。

5.四人家庭的贫困线:对于一个居住在美国的四人家庭而言,其年收入低于26,500美元即被定义为贫困。

6.更大家庭的贫困线:对于超过四个人的家庭,每增加一个人,贫困线将相应增加4,540美元。

需要指出的是,这些贫困线标准只是作为一个基准来使用,并不能全面反映一个家庭是否真正贫困。

实际上,美国的贫困状况相当复杂,还涉及到诸多其他因素,例如地理位置、教育水平、就业机会、健康状况等等。

此外,还值得关注的是,由于COVID-19疫情的冲击,2024年以来,美国的贫困率有可能增加,因为许多人失去了工作、收入下降或者健康开支增加。

因此,贫困线标准也需要根据具体情况进行动态调整,以反映时代的变化和特殊情况的影响。

总的来说,美国贫困线标准提供了一个衡量贫困状况的参考,但实际中仍需要结合其他因素和具体情况来进行综合评估和分析。

政府和社会组织应该进一步努力,通过采取有效的政策和措施,减少贫困并改善贫困人口的生活状况。

美国2010年人口普查统计资料

美国2010年人口普查统计资料
1)人口:三点一亿,人口数量列全球第三。(Population: 310,232,863 (Ju world: 3)
2)年龄结构:0-14岁:20.1%;15-64岁:66.9%;65岁以上:13% [Age structure: 0-14 years: 20.1% (male 31,853,857/female 30,526,753) 15-64 years: 66.9% (male 103,607,835/female 104,015,706) 65 years and over: 13% (male 17,291,694/female 22,937,018) (2010 est.)]
7)迁徙率:4.25/1,000 [Net migration rate: 4.25 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)]
8)性别比例:出生时:1.047男/女;15岁以下:1.04男/女;15-64岁:1男/女;65岁以上:0.75男/女;总人口:0.97男/女 [Sex ratio: at birth: 1.047 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2010 est.)]
13)国籍:美利坚 [Nationality: noun: American(s) adjective: American]
14)种族:白人79.96%, 黑人12.85%, 亚洲人4.43%, 美国印第安人和阿拉斯加土著人0.97%, 夏威夷和其他太平洋诸岛土著人0.18%, 其他种族1.61% [Ethnic groups: white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61% (July 2007 estimate) note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean persons of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin including those of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic, Spanish, and Central or South American origin living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.); about 15.1% of the total US population is Hispanic]
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美国人口普查American census
For years, Jorge DelPinal's job as assistant chief of the Census Bureau's Population Division was to fit people into neat, distinct racial and ethnic
boxes: white, black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American. As the son of an
Anglo mother and a Hispanic father, however, he knew all along that the task
was not always possible.
For the 2000 decennial census, that will no longer be the case. For the first
time, the census forms will allow people to check off as many races as apply.
As a result, the Census Bureau should obtain a better picture of the extent of intermarriage in the United States. In the absence of such a direct method,
a few years ago veteran demographer Barry Edmonston used sophisticated mathematicalmodeling techniques to calculate how intermarriage is changing the face of the United States as part of an immigration study he directed for the National Research Council of the American Academy of Sciences. His research was summarized in a report entitled The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. But as the Canadian-born, white husband of sociologist Sharon Lee,a Chinese-American, Edmonston really needed no computer to understand thetransformation under way in this society. He and his family
are living, breathing participants. The face of America is changing -- literally.
As President Clinton has said, within 30 or 40 years, when there will be
no single race in the majority in the United States. But afoot behind the scenes
is another trend that, if handled carefully, could bring the country closer
together rather than drive it apart. This quiet demographic counter-revolution
is a dramatic upsurge in intermarriage. Edmonston's study projected that by 2050, 21 percent of the U.S. population will be of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, up
from an estimate of seven percent today. Among third-generation Hispanic and Asian Americans, exogamy-marriage outside one's ethnic group or tribe-is at least
50 percent, he and others estimate. Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans, but it has increased enormously, from about 1.5 percent in
the 1960s to eight to 10 percent today. Such a profound demographic shift
could take place while no one was watching because, officially, no one was watching. Federal agencies traditionally collected racial data using a formula'
one person, one race' similar to the time-honored voting principle. Thus, the Census Bureau could estimate that on census forms no more than two percent of
the population would claim to be multiracial. In the absence of a more straightforward count, no one could know for sure what the demographics are.。

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