Every 10 years the country "counts heads" and uses those numbers to determine everything from election districts to funding levels. But the story of our neighborhoods, cities, and states is much deeper than what's in the numbers. Join the Brian Lehrer Show as we make sure our listeners count, from in-depth coverage of the census process to interactive projects and all sorts of stories about who we are and how we live in 2010.
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Test Your Census Knowledge
Open Phones: 11th Census Question Roulette
Brian asks callers to answer listener-submitted 11th Questions! The U.S. Census asks 10 questions that try to capture the demographics of our communities. But there are millions of other stories to tell about who we are. Listeners have submitted hundreds of 11th questions. Check them out here.
Baratunde's America: The Census
May's weekly guest, Baratunde Thurston - comedian, politics watcher, and web editor for The Onion - offers his take on the Census, and Census workers call in to talk about their experiences knocking on doors.
Census Coverage: Flash Census, Karl Rove, Gay Marriage
Monday, April 05, 2010
We've been following tons of Census coverage, and some amusing videos and multimedia have been popping up. Here's a little roundup of some of the best stuff:
Today, the Census Bureau reached out to the LGBT community for the first time with the release of a series of PSAs encouraging ...
Our Favorite Census Video
Here's the famed Christopher Walken Census sketch from Saturday Night Live, circa 2000.
Vintage Census Audio
WNYC Archivist Andy Lanset has unearthed some gems from the WNYC vaults, including "Casey Taking the Census," a comic radio play that's over 100 years old. It's like the Daily Show of 1905! Listen to it below, and check out more of Andy's finds here.
Five Census Myths
Each day during the first week of March, William Frey, demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discussed a common myth about the U.S. Census.
#1: Immigration's Role in Diversity
#2: Are We Getting Older?
#3: Big States Always ...
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Your 11th Question
If you could ask everyone in America one question, what would it be? This year the US census is asking 10 questions that try to ...
Been Counted Yet?
April 1 is National Census Day, the Census Bureau's target day for everyone to mail in their questionnaires. Check out the map of nationwide returns here.
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Latest Census News
Official Sites
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Census Response Rate Map
- U.S. Census Bureau: New York Region Page
- New York State Census Page
- New York Senate Census Page
- NYC's 2010 Census Page
- NYC Department of City Planning Population Page
- NYC Census FactFinder
- U.S. Census Bureau: What You Can Do
- U.S. Census Form
- U.S. Census Bureau's YouTube Channel
- Inspector General's Census Reports
Blogroll
- The Brian Lehrer Show's Census blog posts
- Census Hard to Count Maps
- Patchwork Nation
- Social Explorer
- Feet In Two Worlds
- The Census Project Blog
- The Who Lives Here? Map
- Ya Es Hora
- Queer the Census Site
- The Brookings Institution Census Page
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count
- The Pew Research Center Census Page
- The National Association of Counties
- Korean Census
- Adrenalina's The Count that Counts