The U.S. Census Bureau said on Wednesday it was adopting several strategies, including shortening the window for Principal ...

Now, the standards for maintaining, collecting and presenting data on race and ethnicity (Statistical Policy Directive No. 15) in the federal government, as set by the Office of Management and Budget ...

Here's where most unmarried adults live in the U.S. About 46% of U.S. adults aged 20 and older are unmarried, according to a CBS News Data Team analysis of Census data. The U.S. is heading toward a ...

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the better part of the president’s second term radically reshaping the federal government. But in recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on ...

On February 13 th the USDA released the 2022 Census of Agriculture providing data about 1.9 million US farms being operated by 3.37 million agricultural “producers.” The detailed statistics and trends ...

For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is calling for a new census of American households to be conducted and for migrants who did not enter the country legally to be excluded from the count. "I have ...

We explain what the next census could look like. By K.K. Rebecca Lai [This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here.] In light of the Biden administration’s proposed changes ...

Getting a census count wrong can cost communities big. A March 10 report from the US Census Bureau showed an overcount of white and Asian people and an undercount of people who identify as Black, ...

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WASHINGTON – The USA is an increasingly diverse and urbanized nation, newly released data from the once-in-a-decade census showed Thursday. The transformation affects facets of American life from who ...