Populations
Population
is the number of all the organisms of the same group or species,
which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of
interbreeding.
Demographics
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Poverty
-
Walls -
Causes of Death -
How People Die
-
People Watching -
City Planning
-
Census -
Watching

Current World Population
The world's population is projected to reach
8
billion on
November
15, 2022.
The world population was
7.9 billion
in October
2021, up from
7.8 billion in May
2020,
and
7.7 billion in March
2019 and 7,600,000,000 in December, 2017
- In the next 100 years 7 billion people will
die. Have you ever wondered
how
many people have lived since the beginning? How many people were born
and how many have died
in my lifetime?

Around
385,000 people are
born everyday,
and over
170,000 die each day. That is a net increase of
215,000 new people every single day, or over
78,000,000 new people every year, or
83,585,000 new people every year out of the 140.5 million that are born each
year.
Four births each second
of every day and nearly
two people die each second. 250 births each minute
and
105 people die each minute.
There are areas in the world where the
population is declining because of low birth rates and from more old
people dying of diseases. There are now
more adult diapers sold than baby
diapers in Japanese supermarkets. Over population depends on where you
live and how the area is managed. Under population or demographic crunch
can also be problematic when there are not enough service providers.
Carrying Capacity -
Sustainable
Projections for the global population in 2050 -
Each Country's Population compared with the World Population.
The world population grew from 1 billion to 7 billion from 1800
to 2011. It took over 200,000 years of human
history for the world's population to reach 1 billion, and only 200 years
more to reach 7 billion. In1960 the world Population was 3,039,451,023.
In 2011 it is estimated that 135 million people were born and 57
million died, for an increase in population of 78 million.
At the beginning of the 19 century there were only 12 cities in
the world that had over a million people, in 2013, there is over
500 cities in the world with more than a million people. Half
the worlds population lives in large cities, and if you combined all the
large cities in the world, it would cover an area half the size of
Australia.
Human Population Through Time (youtube)
.
World Population (wiki) -
World
Population Estimates (wiki) -
Estimates of historical world population are for the progression of
world population since the late medieval period.
World Population Balance -
Population Data
World
Stats -
Demographics
Birth
Rate -
Death Rate
-
Mortality Rate
Safe Sex
(not just sex education but a higher quality education for everyone)
Population Growth (wiki) -
Modeling Population Growth
Research Data
Human Lifespan is a statistical measure of the average time
an organism is expected to live, based on the year of their birth, their
current age and other demographic factors including sex.
Longevity -
Living Longer
Life Expectancy Rates
List
(wiki) -
World Life ExpectancyMortality
Rates (how people die)
Population Media Center -
Thomas Robert Malthus
(wiki)
One-Child Policy
was introduced in China between 1978 and 1980 and began to be formally
phased out in 2015.
Bloodline -
Genes
How many Single People
-
Being Single
One in every five people on earth is
between the ages of 15 and 24—that's more than 1 billion youth worldwide.
162 Million Females in the U.S.
as of July 2014. The number of
males was 157.0
Million.
Human Population Planning
is the practice of intentionally managing the rate of growth of a human
population. Historically human population planning has been implemented
with the goal of increasing the rate of human population growth.
Family Planning.
Reproductive Suppression involves the prevention or
inhibition of
reproduction in otherwise healthy adult individuals. It
includes delayed sexual maturation (puberty) or inhibition of sexual
receptivity, facultatively increased interbirth interval through delayed
or inhibited ovulation or spontaneous or induced abortion, abandonment of
immature and dependent offspring, mate guarding, selective destruction and
worker policing of eggs in some eusocial insects or cooperatively breeding
birds, and infanticide (see also infanticide (zoology)), and infanticide
in carnivores) of the offspring of subordinate females either by directly
killing by dominant females or males in mammals or indirectly through the
withholding of assistance with infant care in marmosets and some
carnivores.
Family Planning -
Birth Control Types
The civilized world started out with shorter lifespan and plenty of
new births. Now in 2017, people in the developed world are living longer,
and people in some areas are having less children. People are buying more
adult diapers then children's diapers. There will be
more old people then young people. We will
need a work force just to
take care
of our elders. And since robots are taking jobs, caregiving jobs will
be plentiful. Society must prepare themselves for this.
Geometric Progression is a sequence of numbers where each
term after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed,
non-zero number called the common ratio. For example, the sequence 2, 6,
18, 54, ... is a geometric progression with common ratio 3. Similarly 10,
5, 2.5, 1.25, ... is a geometric sequence with common ratio 1/2.
Doubling Time -
Exponential Growth -
Environment
Doubling Time is time it takes for a population to double in
size/value. It is applied to population growth, inflation, resource
extraction, consumption of goods, compound interest, the volume of
malignant tumours, and many other things that tend to grow over time. When
the relative growth rate (not the absolute growth rate) is constant, the
quantity undergoes exponential growth and has a constant doubling time or
period, which can be calculated directly from the growth rate. This time
can be calculated by dividing the natural logarithm of 2 by the exponent
of growth, or approximated by dividing 70 by the percentage growth rate
(more roughly but roundly, dividing 72; see the rule of 72 for details and
a derivation of this formula). The doubling time is a characteristic unit
(a natural unit of scale) for the exponential growth equation, and its
converse for exponential decay is the half-life. For example, given
Canada's net population growth of 0.9% in the year 2006, dividing 70 by
0.9 gives an approximate doubling time of 78 years. Thus if the growth
rate remains constant, Canada's population would double from its 2006
figure of 33 million to 66 million by 2084.
Net Reproduction Rate is the average number of offspring (often
specifically daughters) that would be born to a female if she passed
through her lifetime conforming to the age-specific fertility and
mortality rates of a given year.
Total Fertility Rate of a population is the average number of children
that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: She was to experience
the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her
lifetime, and She was to survive from birth to the end of her reproductive
life. It is obtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a
given time.
Films about Populations
Cynthia Kenyon (youtube)
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (youtube)
BBC Horizon - How
Many People Can Live on Planet Earth Sustainably? David Attenborough
How Many People Can
the Earth Support? (youtube)
Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse (video and text)
Civilizations of the Past (collapse)
The problem isn't so much over population,
though it is a problem in certain areas,
the main problem is
education. This world could easily handle 10 billion people, as
long as every person was fully educated that is. But because we
have so many undereducated people at all levels of society, from
the very poor to the very rich, we will always suffer from the
ignorance that comes from having undereducated people. When
people don't have the right knowledge and information that's
needed to make good decisions and good choices, they will
constantly make mistakes and not have the necessary abilities to
solve problems, or even have the ability to see problems that
are right in front of them.
What Happens in One Day on Planet Earth

My parents have seen the
world population
triple in their life times from 1900 till 2000. I have seen the
world population double in my lifetime since 1960 till 2015. And if I live
till 2060,
I will also see the world population triple. People
being born today will not see the world population double in
their lifetimes. So is the birth rate slowing down?
Adolescents aged 10–24 years represent over a quarter of the
population (1.8 billion), 89% of whom live in developing countries.
Adolescents aged 10–24 years have the poorest health-care coverage of any
age group. Two-thirds of young people are growing up in countries where
preventable and treatable health problems like HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy,
unsafe sex, depression, injury, and violence remain a daily threat to
their health, wellbeing, and life chances.
Butthole
Surfers - Pepper (youtube)
"Starving
peoples minds causes more damage then starving peoples physical
self. Death occurs from both afflictions."
If the entire population of earth
stood shoulder to shoulder (2 feet by 2 feet) we would take up
around 862 square miles of land, which is the size of
Midland County, Texas. There are approximately 57.5 million
square miles of land on earth, which is only 29.2 percent of the
earth's surface.
How
much Farm Land does America need to grow our own Food?
"We are the strongest
when we are together collectively, but we
have to be collectively intelligent, because anything less will
result in suffering, war and avoidable deaths, just as it has
been and still is today."
Birth
Rate in a period is the total number of
live births per 1,000 population
divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is
normally taken from a universal registration system for births; population
counts from a census, and estimation through specialized demographic
techniques. The birth rate (along with mortality and migration rates) is
used to calculate population growth. The estimated average population may
be taken as the mid-year population. Another term used interchangeably
with birth rate is
natality, which is the
ratio of the number of births to the size of
the population or birth rate. When the crude death rate is subtracted from
the crude birth rate, the result is the rate of natural increase (RNI).
This is equal to the rate of population change (excluding migration). The
total (crude) birth rate (which includes all births)—typically indicated
as births per 1,000 population—is distinguished from a set of age-specific
rates (the number of births per 1,000 persons, or more usually 1,000
females, in each age group). The first known use of the term "birth rate"
in English was in 1859.
America Birth Rates
The US Birth Rate has fallen 4%
in the
largest single-year drop in nearly 50 years, according to a government
report. Birth rates for women in their late 30s and in their 40s have been
inching up, but that trend dipped last year. About 3.6 million babies were
born in the US last year, down from about 3.75 million in 2019. When
births were booming in 2007, the US recorded 4.3 million births. The birth
rate for 15 to 19-year-olds dropped 8% from 2019. It has fallen almost
every year since 1991.Birth rates fell 8% for Asian-American women; 3% for
Hispanic women; 4% for Black and white women; and 6% for mothers who were
American Indians or Alaska Natives. The
caesarean delivery rate rose slightly to about 32%. It had generally
been declining since 2009.The percentage of infants born small and
premature – at less less than 37 weeks of gestation – fell slightly to 10%
after rising five years in a row.
The
birth rate for U.S. in 2020 was 11.990 births per 1000 people, a 0.09%
increase from 2019.
A total of 3,747,540 births were registered in the United States in 2019,
down 1% from 2018. The provisional number of births for the United States
in 2019 was 3,745,540, down 1% from
2018.
Causes of Death - Deaths Per Year - The ways that People Die
36 Million Deaths each year are caused by
non-communicable
diseases, such as
cardiovascular disease,
cancer,
diabetes and
chronic lung diseases. This is almost
two-thirds of the estimated
56 million deaths each year
worldwide. A quarter of these deaths take place before the age of 60.
Non-communicable
disease is a disease that is non-infectious and non-transmissible
among people. But the disease called ignorance definitely spreads and
infects and kills more people than all diseases combined, because
what you don't know can kill you, and
the media,
the schools,
the republicans and
the big corporations don't care.
No one hardly ever
dies from
old age or
natural causes, people are being slowly
mass
murdered from
pollution
and
bad food and from the
lack of knowledge.
Ignorance Kills. What
people don't know is killing
them.
40% of
premature deaths are due to behaviors that can be changed. The
knowledge divide decreases
longevity. Health can be
influenced by
environmental
exposures,
poverty,
lack of health care,
bad behaviors,
genetics and
lack of a quality education.
Natural Cause of Death usually means
that a person was not murdered directly or indirectly, or died in an
accident, or supposedly an accident. Death from unnatural causes might be
a heart attack, stroke, cancer, infection, or any other illness.
Not just
wars,
genocides and
mass murders kill
people. Roughly
385,000 people were
murdered around the world in 2017.
Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides,
opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths. The main
reasons are
low quality education,
low quality food,
low quality news,
low quality
housing and
low quality maintenance of the environment,
which ends up with low
quality physical health outcomes and low quality mental health outcomes
for its citizens.
Vital Signs
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Body Burden -
Disease Burden
COVID-19 was
3rd
leading cause Of death in 2020.
In 2015, death rates had been rising dramatically since 1999
among middle-aged white Americans. "
Deaths of Despair".
1 in 4 Deaths are Avoidable -
List of Preventable Causes of Death (wiki)
Consumer Protection (saving
lives by informing the public of dangers).
Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020.
69 Million Children under five will die
from preventable causes and
167 million will suffer
poverty over the next
15 years. Over
7.5 million children under the age of 5 die from
malnutrition
and mostly preventable diseases, each year.
Flowing Data.
Let Us Remember the Fallen,
let them know that their Lives meant something and that they will never be
forgotten.
Half-Mast should be everyday.
Tapps - by Andre Rieu Melissa Venema Amsterdam Arena (13 years old at the time).
Amazing
Grace - (Lyrics) - Susan Boyle (youtube) -
2 Billion People
have Died since 1960.
Annual global deaths in adolescents aged 10–24 years reduced by 21·7%
between 1950 and 2019.
Unintentional
injuries are the leading cause of death for people in the United
States ages 1 to 44. You're more likely to die from a lightning strike
than in a plane crash and you're also more likely to die from being
attacked by a dog, stung by a bee or choking on your food.
The world loses about 3,000 adolescents each day. That adds up to 1.2
million deaths a year,
nearly all preventable.
Mortality Rate is a measure of the number of
deaths (in
general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to
the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically
expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year; thus, a
mortality rate of 9.5 (out of 1,000) in a population of 1,000 would mean
9.5 deaths per year in that entire population, or 0.95% out of the total.
It is distinct from "morbidity", a term used to refer to either the
prevalence or incidence of a disease, and also from the incidence rate
(the number of newly appearing cases of the disease per unit of time).
All-Cause Mortality is utilized in
reference to a disease or a harmful exposure—such as to radiation or
dangerous chemicals—in a statistical context. It is typically expressed as
the total number of deaths due to that condition during a specific time
period.
Mortality Rates Rising for Gens X and Y, too. Reduced US life
expectancy is not just the Baby Boomers.
Death Rate -
MortalityLiving Longer -
Longevity
106 Billion People have lived and
died so far in human history.
Mortality Risk Scores.
Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment.
We have to do more then just make Laws or change laws, we need
to educate.
In 2008, some
6.7 million people died of
infectious diseases
alone, far more than the number killed in the natural or
man-made catastrophes that make headlines. (These are the
latest figures presented by the World Health Organization.)
More than
3.4 million people die each year from water,
sanitation.
Pollution Kills Too -
Toxins
-
Body Burden
9 Million Deaths a Year Globally from Pollution,
with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry
rising 55% since 2000. United States ranks 31st from the bottom at 43.6
pollution deaths per 100,000. Chad and the Central African Republic rank
the highest with rates about 300 pollution deaths per 100,000, more than
half of them due to
tainted water, while Brunei,
Qatar and Iceland have the lowest pollution death rates ranging from 15 to
23. The global average is 117 pollution deaths per 100,000 people.
Pollution kills about the same number of people a year around the world as
cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke
combined. In 2000, industrial air pollution killed about 2.9 million
people a year globally. By 2015 it was up to 4.2 million and in 2019 it
was 4.5 million, the study said.
Household air pollution,
mostly from inefficient primitive stoves, and air pollution killed 6.7
million people in 2019. Lead pollution — some from lead additive which has
been banned from gasoline in every country in the world and also from old
paint, recycling batteries and other manufacturing — kills 900,000 people
a year, while water pollution is responsible for 1.4 million deaths a
year. Occupational health pollution adds another 870,000 deaths, the study
said. In the United States, about 20,000 people a year die from lead
pollution-induced hypertension, heart disease and kidney disease, mostly
as occupational hazards. Lead and asbestos are America’s big chemical
occupational hazards, and they kill about 65,000 people a year from
pollution. The number of air pollution deaths in the United States in 2019
was 60,229, far more than deaths on American roads, which hit a 16-year
peak of nearly 43,000 last year. “We absolutely know how to solve each one
of those problems,” Fuller said. “What’s missing is political will.”
20,000
people
starve to death every day. And thousands die every day as a result from a
bad diet.
21,000 children die every day around the world.
20,000 die from
cancer
every day.
Suicide takes the lives
of nearly
40,000 Americans every year. For young people 15-24 years old,
suicide is the second leading cause of death.
Deaths in the United States of
America, from Jan 1, 2015 - Dec 25, 2015.
(numbers vary from different sources, so the numbers need to be verified).
Heart Disease: 585,671
Cancer: 566,148
Tobacco: 343,601
Obesity: 301,388
Medical Errors: 206,161
Stroke: 126,575
Lower Respiratory
Disease: 140,330
Accident
(unintentional): 124,127
12,000 die every year in
Mining Accidents.
Hospital Associated
Infection: 97,190
Alcohol: 98,172
Diabetes: 72,481
Alzheimer's Disease: 83,421
Influenza - Pneumonia: 52,842
Kidney Failure: 41,980
Blood Infection:
32,852
Suicide: 38,796
Deaths
in America due to alcohol, drugs and suicide reached a record 151,845
in 2017,
Trust for
America’s Health -
Well Being
Trust.
Driving Cars: On average in 2012,
92 people were killed on
the roadways of the U.S. each day, in 30,800 fatal crashes
during the year.
In 2013,
10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving
crashes, nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths.
2015,
35,092 people died on the nation's roadways, an increase of 7.2
percent compared to 2014.
40,200 traffic deaths
U.S. roads in 2016.
6,000
Pedestrian deaths in 2016. Thirty-four percent of pedestrians and
15 percent of drivers involved in fatal crashes were
intoxicated at the time.
Self
Driving Cars.
List of Countries by Traffic-Related Death Rate
1.25 million deaths worldwide in the year
2010.
Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on
average
3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or
disabled. ... Road traffic crashes rank as the 9th leading cause of death
and account for 2.2% of all deaths globally.
In 2021, nearly
43,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. — a 10.5%
increase from 2020.
Improve
Sightlines at Corners by doing daylighting.
Daylighting
solutions eliminate
blind spots
for cars at intersections so they can see any cyclists, pedestrians, or
other cars as they approach and drive through or turn. Programmed traffic
signals to give pedestrians a few-second head start when they get into the
crosswalk during their pedestrian phase without having to worry about
turning vehicles. That allows for crossing pedestrians to take up space in
the crosswalk before any eager drivers try to make a turn.
According to
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
840 bicyclists were
killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2016. The highest fatality rate was
documented in Florida, with 6.7 deaths per 1 million people that year.
Texting while
Driving: 5,880 - (
technology addiction and abuse)
Road injuries are killing young people, and it's hardly slowing down.
540,000 lives could be saved worldwide by targeting speed and other
main areas.
Selfie Deaths in 2017 was
93, and
selfie isn’t always officially included in cause of death. People die
taking a picture of themselves either by drowning, falling into a large
body of water or being swept away by waves. Other deaths included posing
on the edge of a cliff and falling, accidentally shooting oneself when
posing with a firearm, and attacks by animals. The rise of the “extreme
selfie” phenomenon involves photographing yourself “in the most extreme
environments. That apparently includes river rafting, parachuting, or
posing in front of oncoming trains.
Unusual Deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of
death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple
sources.

"Since over a million more people die every
year from
bad health choices then they die from
alcohol-impaired
driving crashes, police should have eating healthy checkpoints
instead of
sobriety checkpoints,
and handout
pamphlets
instead of
tickets."
Unintentional Poisoning: 31,177 (World
193,000)
All
Drug Abuse: 24,548
Prescription Drug Overdose:
14,726.
Overdose and accidental poisonings are up 78 percent over a decade
- pushing aside car crashes as the No. 1 accidental killer in the U.S.
They
killed 42,032 people, about 6,000 more than vehicle accidents.
Opioid overdoses killed 13,486 people in 2014, the non-profit safety council reported.
Smoking in Bed: 766
Murder by Gun: 11,283
Homicide: 16,492
Pedestrian: 4,909
Drowning: 3,843 - (World 372,000)
Fire Related: 3,436
Malnutrition: 2,721
Domestic Violence:
1,433
Killed by
Falling Tree: 147
Struck by Lightning: 81
Abortion: 1,072,045 ?

Each year, 37 million
falls are severe enough
to seek medical attention,
690, 000 deaths in 2012 from falling.
Falling out of Bed: 588
Injury Facts 2016 is Your Source for Safety Data.
First Aid
Heart Disease: 597,689
Cancer: 574,743 ?
Chronic lower
respiratory diseases: 138,080
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859
Causes of Death by Rate
Alzheimer's disease: 83,494
Diabetes: 69,071
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476.
Death Reasons (image)
Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097
Intentional
self-harm (
suicide): 38,364
Food
Poisoning (food safety)
Causes of Death by State (image)
Preliminary U.S.
data on deaths, death rates, life expectancy, leading causes of
death, and infant mortality for 2011 (PDF)
The # 1
Reason why People Die Early, in each Country (youtube)
150,000 people will die today.
Risk Factor Study (PDF)
Even though the total number of deaths
per 1,000
Population is lower now,
(1900 - 17 deaths per 1,000) (2011 - 8 deaths per 1,000) there
are millions more people dying each year. Yes the population has
increased, but what are the real reasons why more people are dying now in
2015 then in 1900?
US healthcare costs for
animal-related injuries exceed $1 billion every year. Numbers
likely to rise amid climate change and development pressure on animal
habitats, warn researchers. Dog bites, non-venomous insect and spider
bites, and bites from venomous snakes and lizards accounted for 60 per
cent of the total costs. During the five year study period, 6, 457, 534
visits were made to emergency care departments by people who had sustained
injuries as a result of an encounter with creatures great and small. Their
average age was 31.
Years of Potential Life Lost
(actual cost of our neglect)
Injuries that
white people
get shows inequality or just
clumsiness (image).
Democracy Linked to Global Health Gains in low-, middle-income countries.
Democracies are more open to feedback from a broader range of interest
groups, more protective of media freedom and might be more willing to use
that feedback to improve their public health programs.
Autocracies reduce
political competition and access to information, which might deter
constituent feedback and responsive governance. Free and
fair elections for better health.
Demographics
Demography
is the
statistical study of populations, especially human beings which
encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these
populations, and
spatial or temporal changes in them in response to birth,
migration, ageing, and death. Based on the demographic research of the
earth, earth's population up to the year 2050 and 2100 can be estimated by
demographers.
Demographics are quantifiable
characteristics of a given population.
Demographics -
Public Data
-
Generations
Demographics of the World (wiki)
Race and Ethnicity in the United States
-
Social Trends -
46.8 million people in the U.S. identify as Black -
Demographics of the United States (wiki) -
RacismThe Han Chinese are the
world's largest single ethnic group,
constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011.
Global Majority is a collective term for people of Indigenous, African,
Asian, or Latin American descent, who constitute approximately 85 percent
of the global population.
Visible Minority is defined by the
Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are
non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour".
Demographic Economics or population
economics
is the application of economic analysis to demography, the study of human
populations, including size, growth, density, distribution, and vital
statistics.
Popular
Last Names by State (image)
People
Still Living with Parents by State (image)
Populations -
How Many
Phones?
What People
Eat Around the World -
School Lunches,
Demographics of the United States
-
Population’s Age and Sex Composition 2010 (PDF) -
Asian America 2011 (PDF)
5-9 years of age______ 20,348,657 __ 6.5%
10-14 years of age____ 20,677,194 __ 6.7%
15-19 years of age____ 22,040,343 __ 7.1%
5-19_____ 63,066,194 ___ 20.3%
Demographics of Young Adulthood 1975–2016 (PDF)
What If Only 100
People Existed on Earth? (youtube) - Quick look at percentages using a
smaller number that represents a larger number.
A clearer
perspective of just some of our reality.
One in every five people on earth is between the ages of 15 and
24—that's more than
1 billion youth worldwide.
Cohort in statistics is a group of subjects who share a defining
characteristic (typically subjects who experienced a common event in a
selected time period, such as birth or graduation).
Census
Census
is a periodic count of the
population. Population statistics help guide
how an estimated $1.5 trillion a year in federal funds are distributed to
local communities, as well as how to better carry out future once-a-decade
counts that are used to reallocate each state's share of congressional
seats and Electoral College votes. The purpose of the
Post-Enumeration Survey is to measure the accuracy of the census. The
survey measures the accuracy of the census by independently
surveying a
sample of the population.
United
States Census Bureau is responsible for producing data about the
American people and economy. The primary mission is conducting the U.S.
census
every ten years, which allocates the
seats of the U.S. House of Representatives to the states based on their
population. The bureau's various censuses and
surveys help
allocate over $675 billion in federal funds
every year and it helps states, local communities, and businesses make
informed decisions.
The information provided by
the census informs decisions on where to build and maintain schools,
hospitals, transportation infrastructure, and police and fire departments. In
addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau continually conducts
over 130 surveys and programs a year, including
the American Community Survey, the U.S. Economic Census, and the Current
Population Survey. Furthermore, economic and foreign trade indicators
released by the federal government typically contain data produced by the
Census Bureau. Census, as defined in Title 13 U.S.C. § 11) is a principal
agency of the
U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about
the American people and economy. The Census Bureau is part of the U.S.
Department of Commerce and its director is appointed by the President of
the United States. In addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau
continually conducts over 130
surveys and programs a year, including the
American Community Survey, the U.S. Economic Census, and the Current
Population Survey. Furthermore, economic and foreign trade indicators
released by the federal government typically contain data produced by the
Census Bureau. The census can also be misused for
gerrymandering voting districts.
Census Population Details
Census Accuracy Problems 2020 (PDF)
Get Counted (844-330-2020) -
my2020census.gov
U.S. Population is around
336 Million ahead of actual count in 2020.
Core-Based Statistical Area is a U.S. geographic area defined by the
Office of Management and Budget that consists of one or more
counties or equivalents anchored by an urban center of at least 10,000
people plus adjacent counties that are socioeconomically tied to the urban
center by commuting. Areas defined on the basis of these standards applied
to Census 2000 data were announced by OMB in June 2003. These standards
are used to replace the
definitions of metropolitan areas that were
defined in 1990. The OMB released new standards based on the 2010 Census on July 15, 2015.
On
April 1, 2022, the
1950 Census will be
released, and users will be able to access it for free through a
dedicated website. This population census is the 17th decennial census of
the United States. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
has digitized and will provide free online access to the 1950 Census
population schedules for U.S. states and territories, enumeration district
maps, and enumeration district descriptions.
People Watching
People
Watching or crowd watching is the act of
observing people and their interactions, usually without
their knowledge. It involves picking up on idiosyncrasies to try
to guess at another person's story. This includes speech in
action,
relationship interactions,
body language, expressions,
clothing and activities.
Eavesdropping may accompany the activity, though is not
required. For some people it is considered a hobby, but for many
others it is a subconscious activity they partake in everyday
without even realizing.
Observational Study -
Profiling -
Big Brother -
Mass Surveillance -
Airport Screening
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Assumptions -
Pretending to Know
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Gas-Lighting -
Legal Threat -
Activity
Recognition -
Staring -
Public Surveys -
Relationship Questions
Surveillance Camera's Effects
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Observation Errors -
Hidden Cameras -
Gaze Perception -
Level of Analysis
People watching can be insightful and informative for authors
when writing a book or actors when
performing a play. Watching
how other people walk, talk and interact with each other can be
used as inspiration for their characters. It can also inspire
other artistic works such as artwork and photography, or lead to
writing a symphony, movie script or blog post. For others,
people watching is a
fun and relaxing activity.
Observational Learning -
Social Learning -
Collaboration
Journalism (photographing) -
Cultural StudiesI find other people to be interesting. I like to learn about their
experiences.
Empathy is
natural.
Psychological Research -
Inaccurate Assessments -
Bias in Research
Naturalistic Observation is a research tool in which
a subject is observed in its natural
habitat without any manipulation by the observer. During
naturalistic observation researchers take great care to avoid
interfering with the behavior they are observing by using
unobtrusive methods. Naturalistic observation involves two main
differences that set it apart
from other forms of data gathering. In the context of a
naturalistic observation the environment is in no way being
manipulated by the observer nor was it created by the observer.
People watching is not to be confused with naturalistic
observation. Naturalistic observation is used for scientific
purposes. It uses the same techniques as people watching. The
key is to not let anyone know that you are observing him or her.
People are in their natural environment, so there is
no pressure
for them to behave a certain way, as they would feel if they
knew they were being studied. Scientists often are fond of this
method because people are acting naturally and not acting how
they are expected to act. Naturalistic observation as a research tool comes with both
advantages and disadvantages that impact its application. By
merely observing a given instance without any manipulation in
its natural context it makes the behaviors exhibited more
credible because they are occurring in a real typical scenario
as opposed to an artificial one generated within a lab.
Naturalistic observation also allows for study of events that it
is deemed unethical to study via experimental models, such as
the impact of high school shootings on students attending the
high school.
Body Language -
Body
Image
Analog Observation is
a research tool by which a
subject is observed in an artificial
setting. Typically, types of settings in which analog
observation is utilized include clinical offices or research
laboratories, but, by definition, analog observations can be
made in any artificial environment, even if the environment is
one which the subject is likely to encounter naturally. Analog
observation is typically divided into two iteration of
application: The first iteration primarily studies the effect of
manipulation of variables in the subject's environment,
including setting and events, on the subject's behavior. The
second iteration primarily seeks to observe the subject's
behavior in quasi-experimental social situations.
Zoos.
Participant Observation Methodology. Participant observation is a
research methodology where the researcher is immersed in the day-to-day
activities of the participants. The objective is usually to record conduct
under the widest range of possible settings. In this way, PO differs from
naturalistic observation, because the latter does not involve interaction
between the researcher and participants. PO was historically associated
with a form of research in which the researcher resides for extended
periods of time in a small community. Currently, PO is used in a wide
variety of settings, and over varied periods of time, from single
interactions to many years.
Watching others' biased behavior unconsciously creates prejudice. We
unconsciously form prejudice toward groups when we see biased people
interact with members of a group. Observational learning is an important
mechanism of prejudice formation.