People of Hispanic origin, including monolingual Spanish speakers, have experienced difficulty identifying with a race category on U.S. demographic surveys. As part of a larger research effort by the U.S. Census Bureau to improve race and Hispanic origin questions for the 2020 Census, we tested experimental versions of race and Hispanic origin…

This study examines local contextual conditions that influence opposition to bilingual education among non-Hispanic Whites, net of individual-level characteristics. Data from the Texas Poll (N = 615) are used in conjunction with U.S. Census data to test five competing hypotheses using binomial and multinomial logistic regression models. Our…

This population study examines possible reasons for a severe underestimation of Latino-origin group populations in 2000 and introduces several alternative methods for estimating these Latino subgroup populations. The new simulated estimates for the Latino subgroups, based on the 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample from the 2000 U.S. Census, are…

The purposes of this research brief were to examine (a) whether youth reports of neighborhood qualities were significantly related to census data at the block group, measuring the same structural qualities and (b) whether the structural qualities were related to youth development either directly or indirectly through youth perceptions. Data were…

Finds that, for 6,137 Mexican-American households, internal migration within five southwestern states between 1975 and 1980 was related to younger age, smaller household size, employment status in 1975 and 1980, and employment in managerial, professional, farming, forestry, and fishing occupations. Contains 20 references. (SV)

Census data and California school data on Latino ethnicity and language illustrate how two bilingual-education constructs, "non-English language background" and "limited-English proficient," are useful but have loosened the traditional ethnicity-language relationship, affecting research and educational policy. New census…

Examination of educational and employment status of Mexican American youths in relation to the proportionate size of the Mexican American population in metropolitan areas found that in 1990, 19% of Mexican American adolescents were "idle"--out of school with limited or no employment. However, proportionately larger Mexican American…