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This glossary clarifies
the meaning of the demographic information that is provided.
AMERICAN INDIAN, ESKIMO OR
ALEUT - Persons (based on self-identification)
who indicated their race as American Indian, entered the name of an
Indian tribe or reported entries such as Canadian Indian,
French-American Indian, or Spanish American Indian; indicated their
race as Eskimo, or reported entries such as Arctic Slope, Inupiat, and
Yupik; indicated their race as Aleut, or reported entries such as
Alutiq, Egegik, and Pribilovian.
ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER -
Persons (based on self-identification)
who indicated, in the 1990 Census, their race as Chinese, Filipino,
Japanese, Asian Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian,
Thai, Hawaiian, Guamanian, and Samoan. The category also included
other Asian or Pacific Islander groups such as Tahitian, Northern
Mariana Islander, Palauan, Fijian, Polynesian, Micronesian, Nepali and
Tongan. In the 1980 Census, the Asian or Pacific Islander category
included only Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian,
Vietnamese, Hawaiian, Guamanian, and Samoan. The other groups e.g.,
Tahitian were classified with the other race category.
ARMED FORCES - Persons on active duty with the U.S.
Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard.
AVERAGE FAMILY INCOME - The total of all income received in by
all family members 15 years of age and older divided by the total
number of families.
BLACK - Persons (based on self-identification)
who indicated their race as Black or Negro, and including other groups
such as African American, Afro-American, Black Puerto Rican, Jamaican,
Nigerian, West Indian or Haitian.
CENSUS - Count
or data about the population and housing of the United States gathered
every ten years (e.g., 1980 and 1990) around April 1.
CIVILIAN EMPLOYED - Persons
at work, or with a job but not at work during the week prior to the
completion of their census form.
CIVILIAN UNEMPLOYED - Persons
without a job, or those looking for work during the last four weeks
(prior to the completion of their census form) and available to accept
a job.
EMPLOYMENT STATUS - The
labor force status of all persons 16 years of age and older during the
week prior to the completion of their census form.
ESTIMATE - Latest
population data (e.g., number of persons) based on the population data
from the last census or other estimate, and other known or estimated
changes resulting from fertility, mortality and migration.
FAMILY - Two
or more persons related by birth, marriage or adoption who live
together in the same housing unit. Unrelated roomers, boarders,
live-in employees, or other non-relatives residing with the family are
not included as members of the family, but are included as members of
the family household.
FAMILY HOUSEHOLD - A
family, and any unrelated roomers, boarders, live-in employees, and
other non-relatives who live together in the same housing unit.
GROUP QUARTERS
- Persons in nonhousehold
living
POPULATION - Arrangements
(both institutional and noninstitutional) including military barracks,
college dormitories, long-term health care facilities, group homes,
boarding houses, prisons, ships and shelters.
HISPANIC - Persons
(based on self-identification) who are descendants of the Spanish
settlers in the Southwest; descendants of early immigrants from
Mexico; recent immigrants and their descendants from Mexico; Cuban
refugees and their descendants; Puerto Ricans; and immigrants and
their descendants from Spain and Central and South America. Hispanic
is a cultural identification and not a race category. Persons of
Hispanic origin can be of any race.
HOUSEHOLD - One
person, families, as well as persons who are unrelated to one another
that live in a housing unit. A housing unit could be a house,
apartment, mobile home, trailer, a group of rooms or a single room
that is self-contained. The number of households in an area is equal
to the number of occupied housing units.
HOUSEHOLDER - Any
household member 15 years of age and older in whose name the housing
unit is owned or rented.
HOUSEHOLD WEALTH
- All assets minus all
liabilities.
MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME - The
median divides the family income into two equal parts; one half of all
families have income above the median and one half have income below
the median.
MEDIAN HOME VALUE - The
median divides the value of housing units into two equal parts; one
half of the units are above this value and one half are below. Home
value is based on the respondent's own estimate of the current dollar
value of the property. For vacant units, value is the price asked for
the property. Single-family homes on 10 acres, mobile homes,
residences with businesses or medical offices on the property, and
housing units in multi-unit buildings are excluded.
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD
- The median divides the
household income
INCOME - into
two equal parts; one half of all households have income above the
median and one half have income below the median.
NONFAMILY HOUSEHOLD - One
person living alone or unrelated persons living in the same housing
unit.
NOT IN LABOR FORCE - Persons
16 years of age and older including students, homemakers, retired
workers, seasonal workers counted in an off season who are not looking
for work, institutionalized persons, and persons doing only incidental
unpaid family work (less than 15 hours during the week prior to
completing their census form).
OTHER RACE - Persons
not included in the White, Black, American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut,
and the Asian or Pacific Islander race categories. The category
includes persons who indicated that they are other race, and groups
such as multiracial, multiethnic, mixed, interracial, Mexican, Cuban
or Puerto Rican.
PER CAPITA INCOME - The
total of all income received by all household members 15 years of age
and older divided by the total household population in that area.
PROJECTION - Future
population data (e.g., number of persons) based on the population
number from the last census or other estimate, and assumptions about
the future course of birth, death and migration.
RACE - A
social (and not scientific) classification of people. The categories
sometimes reflect continent e.g., Asian, or nationality e.g., Chinese.
The terms and categories have shifted over time in the United States
to reflect contemporary social and political realities. For example,
Italians were once considered as nonWhite; the 1890 census listed
separately Negroes, mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons; and at the
time of the 1900 Census Japanese and Chinese were the only sizeable
group of Asians living in the United States. Currently, the major
categories (based on self-identification) are White; Black; American
Indian, Eskimo or Aleut; Asian or Pacific Islander; and other.
Hispanic is not a racial category.
WHITE - Persons
(based on self-identification) who indicated their race as White, and
other groups such as Canadian, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near
Easterner, Arab or Polish.
ZIP CODE - A
five-digit number used by the U.S. Postal Service that identifies each
postal delivery area in the United States. It is also treated as a
geographical boundary area. Claritas (our data vendor) updates all
changes in the zip code boundaries annually. When the boundary of a
zip code changes between two periods (e.g., 1980 and 1990) the data
are not wholly comparable.
If you have any questions about
interpreting the information call the ELCA Department for Research and
Evaluation at 1-800-638-3522.
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