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Chartbook. The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview from the 2007-2011 American Community Survey

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(2013) Appalachia’s residents remain older, less educated, and less racially diverse than the United States as a whole, but those demographic and socioeconomic patterns vary widely within the region, according to The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview From the 2007-2011 American Community Survey, prepared by the Population Reference Bureau for the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Socioeconomic Levels Vary Widely in Appalachia

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(2013) Appalachia’s residents remain older, less educated, and less racially diverse than the United States as a whole, but those demographic and socioeconomic patterns vary widely within the region, according to The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview From the 2007-2011 American Community Survey, prepared by the Population Reference Bureau for the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Aging U.S. Baby Boomers Face More Disability

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(2013) Baby boomers in the United States are more likely than the previous generation to have a disability as they near late-life, suggest a growing number of researchers.

The Barriers to a College Degree

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(2013) When it comes to education beyond high school in the United States, fewer males than females, fewer young people from low-income than high-income families, and a smaller share of blacks and Hispanics than whites and Asians tend to enroll and earn degrees.

Measures of U.S. Child Obesity Flawed

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The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States is often tracked using outdated, self-reported data. Self-reported data—when a child (or the child’s parents) is asked for the child’s height and weight—tends to be unreliable.