Data derived from two special censuses of Oklahoma (1975) and Mississippi (1974) Choctaw populations were used to compare and contrast selected demographic, social, and economic characteristics of "blood brothers" and the variations by location in their quality of life. Comparisons revealed the following: (1) southeastern Oklahoma and…

This manual is designed to give the undergraduate an overview of the data collected by the Bureau of the Census and to provide students with some practice in utilizing these statistics. It emphasizes statistics on population and housing including socioeconomic characteristics of persons, families, households, neighborhoods, and governments. The…

On April 1, 1970, we were counted along with the rest of the people in the nation. The Census Bureau found that we constitute about one percent of the population. There are 1,369,412 of us--591,290 Japanese-Americans, 435,062 Chinese-Americans, 343,060 Filipino-Americans, 70,000 Korean-Americans, 100,000 Hawaiians, 107,000 Turkish, 85,000…

One person in five--42.4 million Americans--belongs to youth, viz. those who are 14 to 24 years of age. The 1970 census showed that there were 1.8 million Spanish heritage young Americans between 15 and 24 years of age. The number of white youth is estimated to be 36.6 million. The estimate for blacks and other racial minorities was 5.8 million in…