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Written by: Alice Zawacki, Senior Economist, Center for Economic Studies Undoubtedly, you have seen headlines or heard reports in the media comparing employee benefits between the public and private sectors.   An important component of employee benefits is health insurance.  In … Continue reading →

Written by:  Christopher Goetz, Economist, Center for Economic Studies Has the recent housing bust, which left approximately a third of households with negative equity, “locked” workers into their current home and unable to move for new jobs? America has long … Continue reading →

Written by: Stephanie Ewert The majority of  U.S. schoolchildren have always attended public schools, but private schools have also educated significant numbers of children. Parents send their children to private schools for a variety of reasons, including the availability of … Continue reading →

Written by: Carma Hogue, Assistant Division Chief, Governments Division Today government finance, public pensions, education spending, and taxes are hot issues and in the information age – where information is readily available and more easily monitored and measured – statistics … Continue reading →

Written by: James Fitzsimmons, Assistant Division Chief, Population Division Between 1965 and 2000, the young, single, and college-educated population in the United States—the “YSCE” population—migrated in patterns that were often at odds with those of other segments of the nation’s … Continue reading →

Written by: Roderick Little, Associate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist Federal statistics have a rather schizophrenic view of survey inference. The preferred approach for inferences about descriptive population quantities from large surveys is the so-called “design” or … Continue reading →

Written by: Nancy Bates, Senior Researcher for Survey Methodology, Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology On August 31, the Census Bureau launched a nationwide prize competition under Section 105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2011, Public Law 111-358 … Continue reading →

By Howard Hogan, Ph.D. Chief Demographer   Demography is literally “Writing about people.”  However, it has come to mean the quantative or statistical study of human populations. As such, most of what the U.S. Census Bureau does can be described … Continue reading →

  Nancy Bates Senior Researcher for Survey Methodology, Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology As the statistical agency responsible for enumerating every person residing within the United States, finding and counting the so-called “hard to reach” is in the Census … Continue reading →

Todd Gardner Historian/Survey Statistician, Center for Economic Studies   In a recent presentation at the Census Bureau, Dr. Steven Ruggles, the director of the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) at the University of Minnesota, talked about the history of processing data … Continue reading →