You're convinced you've cracked the baby name code. Every time you walk through the park, it feels like you hear the same ...

This issue brief provides an overview of the decennial census and discusses potential implications of the changes outlined in ...

NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution asking the Centre to use only officially recognised caste names while collecting data on Other Backward Classes during the ...

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the Centre to collect details related to OBCs during the second phase of the 2027 census only on the basis of the official lists ...

India sorts more than a billion people into “rural” and “urban” using a test built for the last century, and that single act of miscounting quietly decides who gets a planned, financed future and who ...

A creative interpretation of the law enabled President Franklin Roosevelt to provide military aid to Britain despite his initial belief that he needed Congress’s approval to act. President Donald ...

Former Census Bureau leaders, statisticians and voting-rights advocates are raising alarms about an unusual, unsigned new report posted on the agency’s website that claims tens of thousands of ...

Wynonna Judd made a name for herself, first as part of the hit duo, The Judds, with her mother, Naomi Judd. That was followed by her lengthy career as a solo artist. But she could have gone by an ...

A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar questions about race and sexual orientation. The US ...

This repository contains the record-linkage pipeline that matches historical USPTO patent inventors (1840–1950) to individuals in the U.S. decennial census (1850–1940, excluding the destroyed 1890 ...

This map shows how people in the United States identify their ancestry or family origin. Use it to explore the many ways we describe our heritage and ourselves. By Albert Sun, Jeff Adelson and Larry ...