The census is a constitutional mandate that has taken place every decade since 1790, and it has profound implications on the nation's political representation.

Tracking race-specific rates of cancer incidence and mortality is important for identifying racial differences in these outcomes and for monitoring efforts aimed at achieving the highest level of ...

In a new study published by Wiley online in CANCER, researchers have assessed how well US race data collection standards and their revisions have captured cancer burdens for various racial groups over ...

The annual five-day census of swans belonging to King Charles III has begun along the River Thames. The centuries-old ...

WASHINGTON - To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat "Hispanic" as a distinct category ...

Adding a new mixed-race category for the 2000 census is just one aim of the burgeoning multirace movement. Other goals include an increase in transracial adoptions and more financing for medical ...

Questions about race and ethnicity that previously were asked separately on forms will now be combined into a single question. That will give respondents the option to pick multiple categories at ...

News / Nation & World Census: People identify race in new ways The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ...

Questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and changes to queries about race and ethnicity are on track to be asked in the most comprehensive survey of American life by 2027, U.S. Census ...

Filling out the 2020 Census was one of the Methuen, Massachusetts resident Antonio Caban's most troubling memories, having to check the other box despite being a Brazilian who identifies as Latino.

In their report, the UCLA researchers propose adding a street or perceived race question to the census and for the census office to define its demographic parameters clearly.