America's native population -- labeled "American Indian and Alaska Native population" by the Census -- was about 6.3 million in 2011, up 2.1% from 2010.
This week, figures released by the Census Bureau showed that the hitherto fast-growing cities around Silicon Valley, including San Francisco, have started to lose population in the wake of the dotcom bust.
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Although Detroit has long ceased to rely on car-making, a 1992 business survey by the Census Bureau found about 19% of the city's workers still employed in manufacturing, above the national average of 16.6%.
NBS's chief statistician, says the census could also show that output by individually- or family-run firms has been understated, with many of them escaping other forms of data collection because they are not officially registered (the census is supposed to cover all businesses, whether registered or not).
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According to the migration figures of the 1993 Census, this Region is equally affected by in-migration (i.e. 20.9%) as Region 1.
That number had climbed from 408, 000 in 2000 and 218, 000 in 1990, according to a 2010 report by the U.S.-based Center for Immigration Studies, citing earlier census figures.
U.S. Census Bureau data suggest that 16, 400 children being raised by same-sex couples are stepchildren and 22, 500 are adopted.
While the government has made some progress -- such as allowing a third gender option on the census -- full protections and marriage rights have yet to be enshrined by law.
Attitudes toward gay marriage are shifting, a black president was re-elected to a second term, and the U.S. Census Bureau predicts that the country will have a majority-minority population by 2043.
The Census Bureau surveys 5, 000 retailers to estimate monthly retail sales and the Census Bureau ignores the real-time data currently being sold to the public by Visa and MasterCard.
Republicans blocked the use of scientific sampling in the 2000 census, and the president managed to make some Democrats angry, too, by his willingness to trade away some census language in an attempt to win approval for fast-track authority.
According to the latest Census figures on the topic, one-third of all housing units are occupied by renters.
The number of so-called nonemployer businesses increased by 33.8% from 2000 to 2010, according to the Census Bureau.
In 2011 the charity published the first part of the study which showed that under the 2001 Census 173, 200 children - one in 77 children - were being brought up by grandparents and other relatives.
Moreover, the 3.4% missed by the census in 1990 was not randomly distributed: for example, blacks and Hispanics were six-to-seven times more likely to be missed than whites, and children were twice as likely to be missed as adults.
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