I kinda don’t want to participate in part 2 of the US Census.
They’ve been calling, sent FedEx deliveries and even had a US Census agent drop by the house.
But I don’t feel right, knowing they cannot protect citizen data as they claim they can from Musk and his posse.
I wonder if this isn’t the point though - to erode trust?
Probably it’s just an added benefit.
Facts are the enemy of the authoritarian. You can't sell a dishonest narrative if there are reliable facts that may counter it.
U.S. Census Bureau data faces danger of brain drain
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5349435/us-census-bureau-data-decennial
Two tables showing top 10 US states by the number of foreign-born persons; and by the foreign-born share of total population.
Also shown are the top five countries-of-birth by each state of residence. Fascinating patterns
California is #1 in terms of number and share of foreign-born population.
Data source is the US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, five-year estimates for the 2019-2023 period.
Countries of birth ranking is based on the 50 largest countries of birth for the US nation. There is a possibility of smaller countries being dominant in certain states.
Top 25 Countries-of-Birth for US nationwide foreign-born population. Mexico is #1 at just 23.5% of the nation's foreign born, followed by India at #2, 6.0% and China, at 4.8%.
This table shows the incredible diversity of the US foreign born population!
Data source is the US Census, American Community Survey, five-year estimates for the 2019-2023 period. Table B05006.
US national foreign born population by continent and sub-continent of birth. Largest region is Latin America, with just over 50 percent of the nation's foreign born. Asia is 2nd largest source of foreign born (30.9%), followed by Europe (10.5%).
Largest sub-continent is Central America, at 32.0%
Data is from US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, five-year estimates for 2019-2023.
Top 10 US States ranked by number of foreign-born non-citizens. California is #1 with nearly 4.8 million non-citizens, and a total foreign born population of nearly 10.5 million, or 26.7% of the state's population.
Nationally, 13.9 percent of the population is foreign born.
Nationally, 52.3 percent of foreign born are naturalized US citizens.
Data is from the US Census, American Community Survey, five-year estimates for 2019-2023.
https://www.europesays.com/1999841/ New Zealand population growth: New Zealand registers fastest population growth in a decade, mainly due to internal migration #2023CensusNewZealand #auckland #census #InternalMigrationNewZealand #MāoriPopulationGrowth #NewZealand #NewZealandPopulationGrowth #Population #StatsNZPopulationStatistics
@davidsirota The report:
https://pestakeholder.org/reports/private-equity-multi-family-housing-tracker/#ownership
says:
>We have identified 121 private equity companies[36] that own at least 8,200 apartment buildings with over 2.2 million units.[37]
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>Private equity’s ownership of almost 2.2 million apartment units represents about 10 percent of the total number of apartment units in the country.[39]
Source 37 is only given as:
>Data Source: Yardi Matrix and Lexis Nexis
Which, unfortunately, is a duo of proprietary sources. The authors likely can't release it for verification :(
Source 39 is given as:
>According to the National Multifamily Housing Council’s tabulation of 2023 American Community Survey microdata from the US Census Bureau, there are almost 23.3 million apartment units in the U.S. An apartment unit is defined as any rental unit in a structure with 5 or more units. https://www.nmhc.org/research-insight/quick-facts-figures/quick-facts-data-download/
Alas, that page gives only a bunch of spreadsheets, with no indication of where the 23.3 million number is coming from. Looks like it comes from the "State Distribution of Apartment Stock, 2022" XLS file, as the sum of all 50 cells with numbers for apartment units for each state comes up to "23,275,718" total units, which is indeed "almost 23.3 million."
Their underlying data source is the American Community Survey microdata, and the NMHC frustratingly does not release their work/code on how they go from that microdata to their tabulations.
Attempting to look at building stats from the microdata, for example, gives this:
I can't get any of their numbers in their "State Distribution of Apartment Stock, 2022" XLS file (NMHC tabulations of 2023 American Community Survey microdata, US Census Bureau. Updated 10/2024) to line up with this table. According to the above linked table, there are 6,603,715 5+ apartment units, 6,205,203 10+ apartments units, 5,517,342 20+ apartment units, and 9,795,042 50+ apartment units, for a total of 28,121,302 estimated apartment units, across the United States. The table I selected includes DC, but that only accounts for 201,294 of the total.
28.1 million (or 27.9 million without DC) apartment units is pretty far from 23.3 million apartment units. What gives? Perhaps NMHC uses a different Housing Unit Weight? Does other prodcessing of the microdata?
The resulting percentage of apartment units owned by private equity would still be alarming (7.88%), just not quite at that double-digit 10.0% mark.
What ID can you use to get data for a specific topic in the US Census 1-year American Community Survey? I made an experimental Custom GPT where you ask a natural language question and get a response. Free ChatGPT account needed.
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67c7c1012ea081918c52c6f25480af2b-find-american-community-survey-1-year-variable-ids
#USCensus #Census #GenAI #DDJ
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/6166
#FunnyNews #LaughWithAI #Jokes #AIComedy #NewsLaughs
The deletions began shortly after #Trump took office. #CDC web pages on #vaccines, #HIV prevention, & #ReproductiveHealth went missing. Findings on #BirdFlu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The #Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain directories of geographic info. The #DOJ expunged the #Jan6th #insurrection from its site, & whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the #Constitution.
#DigitalBookBurning
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
I'm not sure what I'd do with it even if I got access. I mean, if I'm studying immigrant Jewish musician families in NY the 1890s is a more more obscure time period than the 1910s onwards, but then again I'm not going to flip through 110,000 papers to find out about them. hm.
It says it was not published but if the materials of the survey itself still exist somewhere, no one I've encountered seems to know. I asked at the Center for Jewish History reading room staff who directed me back to the de Hirsch digital collection but that's absent
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/18299
#radicalcartography
Cory Doctorow recently shared a link to these #cartographics and #maps illuminating the 1870 US #Census
#HistoricalGeography #GeographicHistory #History #cartography
http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?9thcensus
There are too many people in government. | @destiny
#FederalWorkers #Doge #Census #Layoffs
The #Trump admin is killing off several outside cmtes that provided advice to federal statistical agencies, including the #Census Bureau & the Bureau of #Economic #Analysis. Members of the cmtes, who were NOT paid for their work, received emails today informing them that their purposes “have been fulfilled” & that the cmte “has been terminated effective Feb 28.”
"Commerce Sec Lutnick has terminated all 3 Census Bureau Committees of outside advisers.
- #2030Census Advisory CMTE
- Census Scientific Advisory CMTE
- Nat. Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic & Other Pops.
I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the COMM Dept for comment...
Project 2025's plan calls for the Census Bureau's Nat. Advisory CMTE to be abolished"
-HL Wany
The Trump admin is WHITEwashing the census. It reveals the diversity of the US.
Federal Civilian Employed: 2023 (part 2)
California and Texas have the highest number of federal civilian employed (371 thousand and 361 thousand), but fair low share of jobs being federal (1.9% and 2.4%)
Virginia and Maryland are 3rd and 4th largest states in terms of US federal civilian workers
Federal Civilian Employed: 2023
The District of Columbia has the highest share of civilian employed by the US federal government, at 18.5%. This is followed by Maryland (10.2% of civilian jobs are federal); and Virginia (7.9%).
Nationally, 2.7% of civilian jobs are federal civilian jobs.
