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Long, John F.; Pryor, Edward T. – Current Population Reports: Special Studies, 1990
The result of cooperative research between Statistics Canada and the United States Bureau of the Census, this report presents tabulations of the demographic, economic, and social characteristics of persons born in Canada and counted in the U. S. Census of 1980 along with persons born in the United States and counted in the Canadian census of 1981.…
Descriptors: Demography, Foreign Countries, Graphs, Maps
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Belanger, Alain; Rogers, Andrei – International Migration Review, 1992
Examines the importance of place of birth on the internal migration and spatial redistribution patterns of the foreign-born population in the United States for 1965-70 and 1975-80, relying mainly on the Public Use Microdata sample. Age patterns of migration are also analyzed for different groups. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Census Figures, Geographic Regions, Immigrants
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2005
Thousands of children displaced by one of the most destructive natural disasters ever to strike the United States will be back in school soon, sometimes as far as 500 miles away from home. Whether their own schools are flooded in New Orleans or missing roofs in Biloxi, Mississippi, many students will find a spot in a classroom in the town where…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Weather, Influences, Educational Environment
Espenshade, Thomas J. – 1986
The low fertility of Western industrial nations is likely to become a permanent condition; in the absence of immigration, populations with below-replacement fertility will eventually decline in size. But at the same time fertility is declining, international migration to the West is accelerating. Legal immigration to the United States rose from…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Birth Rate, Demography, Foreign Countries
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div. – 1977
This report presents population estimates for July 1, 1974, and provisional estimates for July 1, 1975, for all counties and county equivalents in the United States, by state. Estimates are also shown for standard metropolitan statistical areas, New England county metropolitan areas, and 13 standard consolidated statistical areas. The estimates,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Migration, Migration Patterns
Garcia, John A. – AGENDA, 1981
Discusses patterns of regional population shifts and economic growth (or decline) and the direct relationship they have with Hispanic populations throughout the United States. Suggests that such developments have direct and indirect consequences on Hispanics' economic and political status. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Economic Factors, Economic Status
Population Crisis Committee, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report discusses population trends abroad and their relation to immigration pressures and policies in the United States. The following sections are included: (1) "Two Major Waves of Immigration"; (2) "The U.S.--A Major Host Nation for Permanent Immigrants"; (3) "Changing Sources of Immigrants to the United…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Immigrants
Fuguitt, Glenn V.; And Others – 1981
Focusing on changes in differential growth in areas inside and outside places of 2,500 and highlighting recent patterns of concentration/deconcentration, this report documents trends in population redistribution within metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States between 1950 and 1975. In sum, the report shows apparent…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Size, Demography, Metropolitan Areas
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div. – 1978
This document examines the geographical mobility of population in the United States from 1975 to 1977. It is divided into three main parts. The first part briefly traces the interregional migration of blacks, the black return migration to their region of birth, the interregional migration of whites, and the metropolitan and nonmetropolitan…
Descriptors: Black Population Trends, Census Figures, Ethnic Status, Family Mobility