Statistics

This is perhaps my most data-driven post within my blog. In order to give a better view of the dramatic increase of Hispanics within the U.S., I went through a number of documents that have been released by the U.S. Census Bureau. In my search I found a number of valuable reports, but for the sake of my readers, I will only be discussing the two major reports.

First is actually a presentation compiled by the Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch, Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. The title is Hispanics in the United States the topics that are covered include population size and growth, geographic distribution within the U.S., and also current socioeconomic characteristics. According to this report, the five states with the largest Hispanic population, in order, are California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois. The following is a chart with a link (below it) to the actual presentation (in PDF).

Source: Hispanics in the United States. Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch of Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau.


The second report is entitled Tracking Hispanic Ethnicity: Evaluation of Current Population Survey Data Quality for the Question on Hispanic Origin, 1971 to 2004 and was compiled by Dianne Schmidley and Arthur Cresce for the U.S. Census Bureau using the Current Population Survey (CPS). This report begins with thoroughly explaining all aspects of the research and data analysis, including definitions and examples of questions asked in the surveys. Next, Schmidley and Cresce present their findings with tables and explanations of those tables. These tables represent the dramatic increase in Hispanic population within the U.S. from 1971 to 2004. Below is one of the tables along with a link to the full report.

Source: Schmidley, Dianne and Arthur Cresce. Tracking Hispanic Ethnicity: Evaluation of Current Population Survey Data Quality for the Question on Hispanic Origin, 1971 to 2004. U.S. Census Bureau.