1 Fundamental: Census trends Flashcards
Which US census allowed for the first time the respondents to select more than one race that they identify as?
2000 Decennial Census
Which US census was the first to discontinue the long form survey?
2010 Decennial Census.
What is the trend for US diversity and ethnic groups?
Our country is becoming older and more diverse. The non-Hispanic white population will become a minority (47%) by 2050, increasing more slowly than other racial and ethnic groups. The nation’s older population will more than double in size from 2005 through 2050.
Which percent of the U.S. population now lives in urban areas
83% of the U.S. population now lives in urban areas, up from 64% in 1950.
Starting with the 2020 census, the Census Bureau uses a delineation of “urban area’ with which population criteria?
To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,000 housing units or have a population of at least 5,000.
Define urbanized area?
Urbanized area wherever it found an urban nucleus of 50,000 or more people. These urbanized areas may or may not have contained any individual cities of 50,000 or more.
What is an urban cluster?
urban clusters” had at least 2,500 but less than 50,000 persons and a population density of 1,000 persons per square mil
What is an Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)?
(MSA) includes at least one city with 50,000 or more inhabitants, or an urbanized area (of at least 50,000 inhabitants), and a total metropolitan population of at least 100,000.
What is micropolitan Statistical Area
(MSA) has a population of more than 10,000 people and less than 50,000 people. This includes a central county and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration as measured by commuting.
What is a CDP?
(CDP) is the equivalent of an incorporated place for data purposes. This is for settled concentrations of population that are not incorporated.
What is CMSA?
(CMSA) is made up of several PMSA’s. An example is the Dallas-Fort Worth Consolidated Metropolitan Area. Dallas and Fort Worth are each primary metropolitan statistical areas.
What is a Core Based Statistical Area?
(CBSA) is defined by the US Office and Budget to provide data description for areas where there is a core area with at least 10,000 people that when combined with other adjacent communities is socially and economically integrated.
Who published Megalopolis? What is the population requirement?
In 1961, Jean Gottman. A megalopolis areas with more than 10 million people
Census tract typically has a population between?
2,000 and 8,000 people.
It is the smallest area where all information is released.
Census block is the smallest level at which the Census data is collected
400 housing units per block.
A group of Census Blocks.
600-3,000 people
What is a Minor Civil Division?
(MCD) is a unit only used in 29 states and usually corresponds to a municipality.
Census County Divisions are used in how many states and why?
are used in the 21 states that do not have MCDs.
Tribal Designated Statistical
A unit drawn by tribes that do not have a recognized land area. These are defined independently of the standard county-based census delineations.
Threshold Population
is a term that is under a number of government programs to determine program eligibility
Public Use Microdata Sample and Public Use Microdata Areas
refer to data available through the American Community Survey.
Which State experienced the largest numeric increase for 2010 to 2020?
Texas
What is the name of the survey that replaces the long form in the decennial Census?
The American Community Survey
What is one significant difference between the long form and the ACS?
ACS asks for income received in the last 12 months, which is done on a rolling basis
Baby Boomers
People born in the United States between 1946 and 1964
Generation X
These people were born between 1965 and 1980
Millennials
1980 to 2000.
Generation Z
These are the children born after 2000
