Americans are making more money and are more likely to identify as members of two or more races, according to the Census Bureau’s 2016-2020 American Community Survey, released Thursday.
by a months-long suspension of fieldwork due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the bureau adapted its methodology to minimize nonresponse bias, and determined that 2016-2020 ACS data was fit to release in its standard form. ACS 5-year estimates are not intended to gauge rapid change, like the economic upheavals caused by Covid, and figures in the 2016-2020 ACS reflect only part of the pandemic’s impact on social and economic metrics, the bureau said.
for Black or white respondents, allowing them to further specify their origins with labels like German, Irish or Jamaican.The ACS’ “some other race” category is used to capture respondents whose race falls outside the categories of white, Black/African American, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.That’s about how many people currently live in the U.S.
. Even so, the U.S. population is dwarfed by China’s 1.41 billion inhabitants and India’s 1.38 billion inhabitants. files from the 2016-2020 ACS. PUMS files allow members of the public to formulate custom estimates using Census data. Individuals and housing units included in PUMS files are protected so they cannot be identified, the bureau said. The bureau did not release PUMS files for the 1-year 2020 ACS due to Covid impacts.
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