The count is mandated by the Constitution and conducted by the U. Census Bureau, a nonpartisan government agency. Each home received an invitation to respond to a short questionnaire—online, by phone, or by mail. This marked the first time that everyone could respond to the census online. A Look Back at the Census. Each week, we recap the latest U. Department of Commerce highlights spanning a wide range of issues promoting job creation and economic growth, programs, and events in one blog post.
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The observance was born in when Congress authorized the president to issue an annual proclamation designating National Hispanic Heritage Press releases.
The strategic leverage of data will also provide increased competitive advantage to U. House of Representatives. No state has permanent claim to their current number of assigned House seats. After the Census, southern and western states are expected to gain seats—and political clout—at the expense of states in the Northeast and Midwest.
House elections and state votes in the U. Electoral College for the presidential election. Census totals help determine the amount of funding that state governments and local communities receive from the federal government for the next decade. Data from the census inform a wide range of government, business, and nonprofit decisionmaking. Governments and nonprofit organizations rely on decennial census data to determine the need for new roads, hospitals, schools, and other public sector investments.
Census data are also vital to businesses as a key source of information about the U. The survey is designed to provide governments with information on fertility trends, maternal and child health, family planning use, and knowledge of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. The DHS includes several key fertility rates including the age specific fertility rate, the general fertility rate, and the total fertility rate.
It also provides information on infant and child mortality rates. The reports are primarily used by Ministries of Health at the national and regional levels for family planning, AIDS prevention programs, and the maternal and child health care services. The survey serves two useful purposes. First, the information on fertility behavior helps planners study trends in fertility. As mentioned in Lesson 3, high levels of fertility can lead to high numbers of children in the age cohorts.
The high proportion of youth will continue into the next decade since future mothers have already been born. Second, the survey provides regional information on basic demographic characteristics of households between census takings. The published reports provide regional information on household size, sex of household head, levels of educational attainment, school attendance, and access to mass media.
Information on the role and status of women including labor force participation, form of earnings, and occupation is also included. Planners may observe the age and sex distributions of regions to plan for different segments of the population. Changes in housing quality, especially in countries where several surveys have been administered, may also be evaluated.
The survey collects information on the availability of electricity, source of drinking water, available sanitation facilities, materials used for building construction, persons per sleeping room, and mean persons per room.
National statistics offices in most countries administer the Demographic and Health Survey. In some countries two to four rounds of the survey have been administered over the past 15 years. It is possible to analyze several surveys for a given country to observe changes over time. The reports can also be ordered through the web site of the Demographic and Health Surveys.
Survey data sets can also be downloaded free at the DHS web site along with instructions on how to place the data set on your local computer. Mortality statistics are used in population projections to calculate the probability of surviving into a future period of time.
Information on the cause of death is also used to develop and implement plans that protect the health of communities. Planners are concerned about environmental factors that affect the health of residents including the quality of water, sewage systems, living quarters, roads, public transportation, and work environments.
Information on births and deaths can be obtained from vital registration systems, sample surveys, church records, and health records. Studies conducted by the United Nations in and provide information on who collects and compiles vital statistics information in developed and developing countries.
In most countries, a central statistics office is responsible for the national compilation of vital statistics. The location of national statistics offices varies among countries. In a study conducted in by the United Nations, it was observed that approximately:.
The second type of office that compiles vital statistics information is a national civil registration office. Many of these offices are located within Ministries of Finance, Economics, or Planning. Other ministries where central statistics offices and national civil registration offices can be found include the Ministry of Local Government, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Office of the President.
In some countries several units of government jointly compile vital statistics such as the Ministries of Health and Planning. Before relying on one particular data source, investigate the ability of the agency to collect accurate and thorough information at the national and sub-national levels including districts and counties. Completeness of registration is fairly high in South American countries including Argentina, Chile, and Colombia where coverage is 90 to percent. A fair number of Asian countries have comprehensive registration systems with 90 to percent coverage including China, Sri Lanka, South Korea and Japan, to name a few.
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