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 …

.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 …

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 …

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 …

We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …