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Demographics are generally something that can be equated down into numbers. Some catagories [not all inclusive] are: age distribution, household & family structure, language, citizenship status, income, industry & occupation, educational status, language, health [birth rate, deaths in area, life expectancy], population of area, urban versus rural .
- http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/
- A Panel Study of Income Dynamics The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and the families in which they reside. It has been ongoing since 1968. The data are collected annually, and the data files contain the full span of information collected over the the course of the study. PSID data can be used for cross- sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families.
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- http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:m5xMoFNaPn4J:www.vidyaonline.net/arvindgupta/ddk-snt.doc+underdeveloped+countries&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
- An article by D.D. Kosambi on Problems of Science and Technology in Under-developed Countries. A DOC version is also available.
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- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Travel/Def_Third_World.html
- Article by Gerard Chaliand on the Third World: definitions and descriptions.
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- http://www.thebrokenspoke.org/
- the Broken Spoke has detailed demographics for every county in the USA
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- http://www.atell.org/CFES/ECStatsUSA.htm
- Call for Ethnic Communities Statistics.
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- http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html
- CensusScope has charts and trends, maps, ranking and other census trend charts.
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- http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/narratives/OREGON.htm
- Climate of Oregon is a delineation of the various topographic features.
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- http://sedac.ciesin.org/
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network has a mission to develop and deliver information products and services that integrate social and natural science data in ways useful for decision making. Includes population data and maps.
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- http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3037839820090130
- Reuters Defining the US middle class.
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- https://www.patrick.af.mil/DEOMI/research%20main%20pages/ResearchStats.htm
- DEMI Certain statistics are available from the Directorate of Research at DEOMI that can be used for such things as preparation of speeches, compilation of certain figures for an ethnic celebration, or comparison of Base/Post/Unit demographics with those of a particular Service or DoD overall. Our handouts are entitled Semiannual Race/Ethnic/ Gender Profile of the Department of Defense Forces (Active and Reserve), the United States Coast Guard, and Department of Defense Civilians, , , and Demographic Trends in the (Active and Reserve) Armed Forces and U.S. Coast Guard.
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- http://www.epa.gov/docs/oppe/eaed/eedhmpg.htm
- Economy and the Environment contains a number of reports from and to the EPA. The program carries out research and analyses of the interactions and relationships between the economy and environmental pollution control as well as other aspects of
environmental economics. This includes determining the economic benefits and costs of pollution control, the use of economic incentives for pollution control, and the size, composition, and impacts of the pollution control industry.
- http://www.ceu.hu/cps/res/res_ethnicstatistics.htm
- Ethnic Statistics and Data Protection Research Data
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- http://www.ethnicityonline.net/ethnic_groups.htm
- ethnicity online has a variety of ethnic groups including religions [buddhists, catholics, Christian scientists, church of england, hindus, Jehovah's witnesses, jews, muslims, sikhs. Also has video interviews.
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- https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
- The Genographic The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages.
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- http://www.ancestry.com/landing/l1/nationality/nationality.htm?o_xid=7109&o_lid=7109&sourcecode=7109
- Immigration and Ethnic Records has information on the following groups: African Americans
Cherokee Tribes, Early Americans, Canadians, Austrian Immigrants, German Immigrants, Irish Immigrants, Italian Immigrants, Polish Immigrants,
Scandinavian Immigrants, Pioneers, Jewish People
Accessed June 21, 2010 - http://dieoff.org/page57.htm
- Impact ofpopulation growth on food supplies and environment.
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>- http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html
- Interactional Data Base is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
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- http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/FS16_USImmigration_051807.pdf
- Migration Policy Institute has an article on the annual immigration to the United States.
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- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/siteindex/index.html#people
- National Geographic Peoples and Culture main page.
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- http://nationalatlas.gov/
- nationalatlas.gov updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like it predecessor, this largely digital National Atlas promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes. The Atlas includes products and services designed to stimulate children and adults to visualize and understand complex relationships between environments, places, and people. It contributes to our knowledge of the environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life. This Atlas serves the interests and needs of a diverse populace in many ways, including: as an essential reference, as a framework for information discovery, as an instrument of education, as an aid in research, and as an accurate and reliable source of government information.
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- http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/index.htm
- Office of Immigration Statistics within the Management Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is responsible for developing, analyzing, and disseminating statistical information needed to assess the effects of immigration in the United States. Our goal is to provide high-quality statistical information that is relevant, timely, cost effective, and customer-oriented.
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- http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/popechome/
- Population Ecology from Virginia Tech Department of Entomology. This has the to integrate information on quantitative population studies on the Web. It helps to find population models and data that can be used in research and educational projects. Lecture courses and electronic publications address major problems in population ecology.
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- http://www.prb.org/
- Population Reference Bureau has focus areas of the environment, HIV/AIDS, Population Trends, Reproductive Health. Topics are Education, Employment, Family/Marriage, Family Planning, Fertility, Gender, Health, Income/Poverty, Migration, Mortality, Older Population, Policy, Race/Ethnicity, Urbanization, Youth and 2000 Census. Regions covered are Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, and Sub-Saharan Africa
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- http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2671/Poverty-in-Underdeveloped-Countries-Poorest-Poor.html
- Poverty in Underdeveloped Countries- The Poorest of the Poor - The United Nations' List of Least Developed Countries.
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- http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Populations/populations.htm
- Racial and Ethnic Populations from the Office of Minority Health. Has information and many links.
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- http://www.refdesk.com/factpop.html
- refdesk.com has My Facts Page Population/Demographic Resources.
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- http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
- Social Statistics Briefing includes crime, demographic, education and health statistics.
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- http://www.syngentafoundation.com/food_security_population.htm
- Syngeta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture has information on food security and population. Topics include: introduction, world food population, food security, political economy of food security, conclusion.
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- http://www.eeoc.gov/stats/census/94-171.html
- Tables for Race and Ethnic Distributions in the United States Based on the Public Law from the 2000 Census.
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- http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~tc9w-ball/useful/e-ldccountries.htm
- Underdeveloped Asian countries is listed.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdevelopment
- Underdevelopment defintion and discussion and listing of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin. They also use the word Third World to mean even less underdeveloped.
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- http://www.un.org/popin/
- United Nations Population Information Network has data, publications, organizations, and conferences.
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- http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/
- United States Census Information
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- http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stdemog.html
- University of Michigan Documents Center has information on demographics and housing.
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- http://www.census.gov/
- U.S. Census Bureau has census information on people, business, geography, newsroom, at the bureau. Includes economic census, 2001 area profiles.
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- http://www.census.gov/population/www/
- U.S. Census Bureau has the page of population and household economic topics. Importanty topics are: sources of population information, population clocks, population data programs/products, population data by subject, and other products.
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- http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html
- U.S. Census Bureau Subject Index.
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- http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/immigration.html
- U.S. Census Bureau Immigration, has links to statistics and such.
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- http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html
- U.S. Census Bureau has demographic data and population pyramids of countries.
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- http://www.gcir.org/about_immigration/usmap.htm
- U.S. Immigration Statistics by state.
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- http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library of Demography and Population Studies has lots of links and information.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2000_Census
- United States Census, 2000 has a discussion of the census and various aspects of it.
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- http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070826014513AAvBOLL
- Yahoo Answers has a list of developed and underdeveloped countries,
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DEFINITION OF DEMOGRAPHICS
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Demographics are generally something that can be equated down into numbers. Some catagories [not all inclusive] are: age distribution, household & family structure, language, citizenship status, income, industry & occupation, educational status, language, health [birth rate, deaths in area, life expectancy], population of area, urban versus rural.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=demographicPrinceton defines it as "a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc" Accessed June 21, 2010
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demographicWiktiionary is "A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender." Accessed June 21, 2010
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article565.htmlCenter for Media Literacy defines it as "Measurable characteristics of media consumers such as age, gender, race, education and income level." Accessed June 21, 2010
http://www.nielsenmedia.com/glossary/terms/D/index.htmNielsen Media defines it as an "Audience breakdown based on various characteristics such as age, sex, income, education, etc" Accessed June 21, 2010
- http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/
- ASPE.hhs.gov has links on poverty guidelines, research, and measurement.
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- http://www.answers.com/topic/standard-of-living
- Answers.com describes the Standard of Living withing the United States. Has links to other information.
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- http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err20/
- Blisard, Noel, Hayden Stewart. 2006August. How Low-Income Households Allocate Their Food Budget Relative to the Cost of the Thgirfty Food Plan. Economic Research Service. Economic Research Report No. (ERR020) 29pp.
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- http://www.buzzle.com/articles/middle-class-income-range.html
- buzzle.com has a discussion of the middle class income range.
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- http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_income.html
- CensusScope has household incomes of 2000.
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- http://www.ehow.com/about_5212740_average-middle-class-salary-range_.html
- ehow.com discusses what is an average middle class salary.
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- http://www.itaxrebate.com/income/middle-class-income-range
- iTaxrebate.com has information on middle class ranges of income.
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- http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib747/aib74707.pdf
- Leibtag, Epraim S, Phil R. Kaufman. 2003June. Exploring Food Purchase Behavior of Low-Income Househgolds. How Do They Ecobomize? Agriculture Information Bulletin No 747-07.
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- http://liheap.ncat.org/profiles/povertytables/FY2010/popstate.htm
- LIHEAP CLEARINGHOUSE of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has information on 2009/2010 HHS Poverty Guidelines.
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- http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditures_poverty_wealth.html
- U.S. Census Bureau has links to pdf files related to income, expenditures, poverty, and wealth.
- http://www.justice.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/20061001/bci_data/median_income_table.htm
- U.S. Trustee Program has information on Census Bureau Media Family Income by Family Size for 2006-2007.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class
- Wikipedia describes the upper middle class. Includes an emphasis on American middle class.
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- http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications
- World Bank is the "table of contents" linking to indicating gross national product for the per capita, every economy is classified as low income, middle income (subdivided into lower middle and upper middle), or high income. Other analytical groups based on geographic regions are also used.
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- http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/4/58
- Biomedical Public Health has an article by "Moreira, Pedro A., Patricia D. Padrao. 2004. Educational and economic determinants of food intake in Portuguese adults: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health 4: 58.
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- http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
- Bureau of Labor Statistics has information on how Education pays.
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- http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_education.html
- CensusScope has educational attainment for those 25 and older.
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- http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/3870.php
- Medical News Today has information on good diet in USA influenced by education level, not earing level of people.
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- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15262022
- NCBI has an article "Vereecken, CA, E. Keukelier, L. Maes. 2004Aug. Influence of mother's educational level on food parenting practices and food habits of young children. Appetite 43(1): 93-103.
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- http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_poverty.html
- CensusScope has poverty by age.
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- Haldeman, Lauren. A comparison of food insecurity levels among rural and urban residing Latino/Hispanics in North Carolina.
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- Campbell, J. Gibson and Emily Lennon. 1999. February. Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born population of the United States: 1850-1990"
- This working paper presents selected decennial census data on the foreign-born population of the United States from 1850 to 1990. This paper updates and expands data on the foreign-born population published in 1975 in Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.
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