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 …

household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics--the Current Population Survey (CPS), the … substantiate the theoretical warning against making population-wide estimates from surveys with low response rates …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census … enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and … known Black ancestry. Lower incomes for African-American men perceived as having darker skin tone in the general population …

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 … identify Mexican Americans misses a sizeable fraction of the relevant population and significantly understates this group …

, correctly infer the actual census response on race and ethnicity for 3.4 million vulnerable population uniques (persons with …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 …

-related jobs based on keywords in Census occupational titles. Using the approach in Lin (2011) to identify new work, I measure job …