Lesson 6 Census And Demographics
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2010 Decennial Census | 74% of households responded by mail
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2000 Decennial Census | 17% received long form
83% received short form; shortest since 1820
65% of households responded by mail
Long form was replaced by American Community Survey
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Urbanized Area | Urban nucleus of 50,000 or more people
Must have a core with a population density of 1,000 per square mile and may contain adjoining territory with at least 500 persons per square mile
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Urban Cluster | Have at least 2,500 but less than 50,000 persons and a population density of 1,000 person per square mile
11% of US population lived in 3,158 urban clusters
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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) | Includes at least one city with 50,000 or more inhabitants, or a total metropolitan population of at least 100,000
Collection of counties with core county
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Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) | Has a population of more than 10,000 people and less than 50,000 people
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Census Designated Places (CDP) | Equivalent of an incorporated place for data purposed
Settled concentrations of population that are not incorporated
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Consolidated MSA (CMSA) | Make up of several primary metropolitan statistical area (PMSA's)
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Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) | Core area with at least 10,000 people that when combined with other adjacent communities is socially and economically integrated
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Megapolis | Any many-centered, multi-city, urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants, generally dominated by low-density settlement and complex networks
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Census Tract | Has a population between 2,000 and 8,000 people
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Census Block | The smallest level of which the census data is collected
Typically 400 housing units per block
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Minor Civil Division (MCD) | Is a unit only used in 29 state and usually corresponds to a municipality
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Census County Divisions | Area used in 21 sates that do not have MCD's
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Tribal Designated Statistical Area | A unit drawn by tribes that do not have a recognized land area
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Threshold Population | Is a term that is under a number of government programs to determine program eligibility
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What is the population change from 1990 to 2010? | 76 million to 308 million people
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What percent or people live in urban area? | 81%
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What are the fasted growing states? | Nevada 35%
Arizona 25%
Utah 24%
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What state lost population between 2000 and 2010? | Michigan
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What is the change in average household size form 1970 to 2010? | 3.1 (1970) to 2.59 (2010)
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American Community Survey (ACS) | This survey takes a sample of the population and projects the findings to the population as a whole
ACS began in 2005
Survey reaches 2.5% of the population
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Baby Boomers | Born between 1946 to 1964
High birth rate
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Generate X | Born between 1965 to 1974
Low birth rate
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Generation Y (Echo Boom or Millennial) | Born between 1980 and 2000 (years vary)
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Generation Z | Born after 2000 (years vary)
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What is the expected growth in 65 and older population from 2012 to 2060? | 43.1 million to 92 million
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What is the expected growth in 85 and older population from 2012 to 2060? | 5.9 million to 18.2 million
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What is the expected change in baby boomer population from 2012 to 2060? | 76.4 million to 2.4 million
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What kind of nation (in terms of majority/minority) is predicted? | Majority-minority
No one group will be the majority
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When will the US total population hit 400 million? | 2051
Will hit 420.3 million in 2060
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What is the expected change between male and female ration between 2012 and 2060? | No change, 104.7 males per 100 females
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Principal City | Largest incorporated area in a CBSA
Can have many principal cities (e.g. Phoenix metropolitan area)
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