EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report analyzes the demographic, migratory, work, and service use patterns of farmworkers in southern New Jersey, up-state New York, north-central Kentucky, and eastern Pennsylvania counties, to discover possible causes of census omissions, and to suggest methods to improve coverage in the next Census. The study shows that the factors affecting Census coverage combine dif...

This paper describes the core methodological ideas, the required input data, and estimation issues of the extended cohort-component approach to simultaneously project household composition and population distributions at sub-national levels. We assess the projection accuracy of this approach by calculating projections from 1990 to 2000 and comparing projected with the census-observed counts in ...

This study evaluates associations between soil lead concentrations (SPb), age of housing, and blood lead levels (BPb) of children in metropolitan New Orleans and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The database includes over 2,600 SPb and 6,000 BPb samples paired by their median values and pre-1940 housing percentages for 172 census tracts. Associations were evaluated with Fisher's exact test and Spea...

The article by Ji, Zöller, Sundquist, and Sundquist1 found that, after a cancer diagnosis in husbands or wives, the risks of coronary heart disease and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke were each significantly increased in affected versus nonaffected spouses. This analysis used several Swedish national data registries, including the Swedish Cancer Registry, the Swedish National Population and Hou...

Background: In Vietnam, reports either present general patterns of internal migration or the migration characteristics of specific subgroups. Reports are often based on small numbers and do not examine the relationships between socioeconomic factors and migration. Different reports classify migrant populations differently, presenting difficulties for researchers and policymakers to gain a consi...