Current Population Reports: Special studies. Series P-23, Issues 57-67U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975 |
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65 YEARS OLD adjusted age group areas average birth Black-and-other-races population census census data Census of Population central cities children ever born cohort confidence interval coverage estimates coverage rates Current Population Reports Current Population Survey death rates demographic Department of Commerce derived difference distribution District of Columbia divisions employed enrolled esti expected sex ratios factor female heads female population figures food stamp program geographical mobility HEAD 65 Health Statistics increase July labor force Male Female marital status marriage married median income Medicare migration mortality Negro North Central number of children number of persons Number Percent Numbers in thousands overcount PERSONS 65 population 65 procedure proportion purchasing food stamps races regions residential mobility sample Source South Spanish origin standard error State-of-birth survival rates table A-5 tion Total or white total population U.S. Bureau U.S. Department undercount rates underenumeration United unrelated individuals West South Central White females White population women/men
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Page 2 - New England: Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts . Rhode Island Connecticut Middle Atlantic: New York New Jersey ... Pennsylvania East North Central: Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan ... Wisconsin West North Central: Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota . South Dakota Nebraska Kansas South Atlantic: Delaware Maryland...
Page iv - Columbia Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida East South Central Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Mississippi West South Central Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas Mountain Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah Nevada Pacific Washington Oregon California Alaska...
Page 60 - B are approximations to the standard errors of various estimates shown in this report. In order to derive standard errors that would be applicable to a wide variety of items and could be prepared at a moderate cost, a number of approximations were required. As a result, the...
Page 68 - Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples...
Page 46 - CPS estimates are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained if a complete census had been taken using the same questionnaires, instructions, and enumerators.
Page iv - NEW ENGLAND Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut .. MIDDLE ATLANTIC New York New Jersey Pennsylvania EAST NORTH CENTRAL Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin WEST NORTH CENTRAL Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas...
Page 63 - Of this number, 2, 250 occupied units, on the average, are visited but interviews are not obtained because the occupants are not found at home after repeated calls or are unavailable for some other reason.
Page 59 - The reliability of an estimated percentage, computed by using sample data for both numerator and denominator, depends upon both the size of the percentage and the size of the total upon which the size of the percentage is based.
Page 111 - The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other.