The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census …

analyses. We address this by introducing a new dataset linking patent inventors to survey, census, and administrative microdata … at the U.S. Census Bureau. We use this data to provide a first look at the demographic characteristics, employer …

Using only 34 published tables, we reconstruct five variables (census block, sex, age, race, and ethnicity) in the … confidential 2010 Census person records. Using the 38-bin age variable tabulated at the census block level, at most 20.1% of … published data, an attacker can verify that all records in 70% of all census blocks (97 million people) are perfectly …

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create … large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census to another or from other sources to the census. We …