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Hispanic Stay-at-Home Mothers

This links to a FactTank posting about Hispanic stay-at-home mothers, and beliefs among Hispanics about whether children are better off with a parent at home.

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The Changing Forces Driving Hispanic Population Growth

A new Pew Research report highlights the driving forces behind Hispanic population growth, which increasingly is driven by births, not immigration. This posting links to the report and to accompanying...

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Do Americans Change Their Race? From One Census to the Next, Millions Do

This links to a FactTank posting about research that used data from census questionnaires in 2000 and 2010 to analyze how many Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the...

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A Difficult Question: How Many Same-Sex Married Couples?

This posting links to an article about the Census Bureau's difficulty in getting an accurate count of same-sex married couples. As more states legalize gay marriage, producing a good number becomes...

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Census Will Count Same-sex Spouses with Married Couples

This links to a FactTank posting about the Census Bureau's plans to categorize same-sex spouses as married couples, a change from its current practice of counting them as unmarried couples.

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Are We There Yet?

This links to a FactTank posting explaining how two government agencies--the Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics--have different answers to the question of whether most U.S. babies...

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Big Changes in Stay-at-Home Fatherhood

Not only has the number of stay-at-home fathers nearly doubled in recent years, but fathers who are home with their children are a larger share of stay-at-home parents. This links to a FactTank posting...

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Hispanic Growth Mainly Due to Births, Asians Mainly Due to Immigration

This links to a FactTank posting describing major findings about Hispanics and Asians based on new Census Bureau population estimates for July 1, 2013. The posting explores sources of growth, and state...

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Census: Minority Births Not Quite the Majority Yet

This links to a FactTank posting about new Census Bureau population estimates by age, race and Hispanic origin for 2013. It finds that the decline in U.S. births after the onset of the Great Recession,...

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Even After the Recession, A Continued Rise in Multi-Generational Living

This posting links to a new Pew Research Center report that uses U.S. Census Bureau data to show that a rising share and number of Americans live in multi-generational households, especially young...

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