Families' abilities to participate in public school choice programs may be constrained by residential and school location. We provide some of the first evidence of the role that residential mobility and commute time to school in entry into and exit from inter-district and charter school choice. Using a unique panel of student enrollment and…

The American Community Survey (ACS), a nationwide study collected continuously every year in every county in the United States, is designed to provide communities with reliable and timely demographic, social, economic, and housing data each year. These ACS estimates are not averages of monthly or annual values, but rather an aggregation of data…

"The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview from the 2017-2021 American Community Survey," also known as "The Chartbook," draws from the most recent American Community Survey and comparable Census Population Estimates. The report contains over 300,000 data points about Appalachia's economy, income, employment, education, and other…

This chartbook is the 14th version to be produced for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). The Chartbook describes the diversity of the Appalachian Region on a host of demographic and economic measures and provides an important annual view of the area and its people. The data contained in the…

In this paper, the authors estimate the effect of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP, or the Milwaukee voucher program) on integration in public and private schools. Their first question is straightforward: Do the student bodies at private schools participating in MPCP have a racial composition that more closely or less closely resembles…

This paper uses 1980 Census data to assess the patterns of population redistribution and migration of Asian Americans. Analyzing migration flows, it argues that Asian Americans who immigrated to the United States before 1975 followed a national trend of regional population shift from the Northeast and the North Central to the West and South.…

The tabular data in this report on New York City's Puerto Rican population and households comes from the 1980 Census. It is noted that all data in the report must be considered preliminary pending the final outcome of litigation over a possible population undercount. Population information is provided by age, sex, and marital status. Household…

Presents statistics, broken down by race and ethnic origin, on home ownership, housing costs, mortgage holders, and rent in the United States. (KH)

The Maryland Higher Education Commission has prepared a set of reports containing information about Maryland colleges and universities attended by residents of the state. There are separate reports for the entire state and for each of the 12 "service delivery" areas (counties or groups of counties). This report contains data for the…

While there were substantial improvements in housing quality between 1960 and 1978, racial differences in housing quality, as measured by structural deficiency, crowding, and age of housing unit persisted over the two decades regardless of socioeconomic status, family composition, and geographic regions. (Author/LHW)

Racial residential segregation persists at high levels in all American cities with sizeable black populations. In 1980, 28 cities with black populations of more than 100,000 were home for 9.7 million blacks, more than a third of all American blacks. The average segregation index score for these cities was 81, when 100 means that every city block…

Statistical data indicate that Scandinavia and the United Kingdom have lower rates of institutionalization of people with mental retardation/developmental disabilities than do other European Community countries and East European countries. A table shows total institutional populations, institutionalization rates, and average annual rates of change…

Whether information technology (IT) graduates of Illinois colleges exit the state in greater percentages than do other graduates was studied using data from alumni surveys conducted by the public 4-year colleges and universities in Illinois. Data were added from a survey of 575 IT seniors in the 2000-2001 class. Survey data do suggest that IT…

This summary of data on female-headed households indicates that most live in housing that is older and less adequate than that of the general population; the housing units are more often rented than owned; and women in this category must spend a greater proportion of their income on housing than does the general population. Data also show that if…

This report uses data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B) to describe the residence and migration patterns of students who earned their baccalaureate degree in the 1992-1993 academic year. These students were interviewed in 1993 and again in 1994 and 1997. States were identified by level of attraction, with high…