Oldest Areas May Be Hardest Hit: The Importance of Age Structure in Understanding Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic

While we have much to learn yet about the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2, commonly known as COVID-19, evidence to date suggests that deaths among people who have tested positive for the coronavirus are highest at older ages and near zero for young children.

The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe in 2020 will have long-term and widespread effects on the U.S. economy and labor force. A PRB analysis finds that workers in one of the hardest-hit sectors—food preparation and server-related occupations—are among the most economically vulnerable.

Just as the 2020 Census is getting underway, many colleges and universities across the country are closing their campuses and moving classes online in response to concerns about the coronavirus or COVID-19.

The U.S. Census Bureau aims to count each person once—and only once—in the decennial census. It does that by determining how many people live at a every residential address. But how does it count people with more than one address? Or military personnel deployed overseas? Or people incarcerated in co…

More than 300 million people live in the United States and getting an accurate count of each and every one of them is no easy feat. As the U.S. population has grown—from just under 4 million in 1790 to more than 329 million in 2019—the Census Bureau’s enumeration methods (how they count people) have…

What is a census? A census is an official, complete count of a population. A census may also record details about each person such as age, sex, and living arrangement. Unlike a survey, which captures data for a sample of the population and uses that sample to infer characteristics for the larger pop…

This exclusive preview of the upcoming decennial census reveals population shifts with major implications for the nation’s political, social, and economic future.

By law, the U.S. government is required to count the number of people living in the United States every 10 years. Getting an accurate count is important because census numbers impact daily life in the United States in many ways.

Many children may lose public health insurance and nutrition assistance benefits under proposed changes to U.S. immigration policy.

The number of U.S. children living in counties with high drug overdose death rates has increased sharply since 2000.

The addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census may put almost one in 10 U.S. households and nearly 45 million people at greater risk of not being counted―the question has been shown to reduce response rates. Undercount risk is particularly high among young children. In April 2020, a censu…

While  the  U.S.  economy  has  shown  signs  of  recovery  since  the  Great  Recession,  inequality  among  America’s  33  million  working  families  has  increased.  The  unemployment  rate  has  fallen  from  a  post-recession  high  of  9.6  percent  in  2010  to  4.4  percent  in  2017—the  l…