Some critics have pointed to the fact that the data collected in the census will be "processed in a plant run by an American firm whose staff were prosecuted for stealing President Obama's student ...

Today's Census data contained the good, the fair, and the ugly. The good news is that the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 1.3 million and the share of Americans without insurance fell by more ...

Many databases from the U.S. Census Bureau appeared to be unavailable to the public on Thursday. Several economists told CNBC's Steve Liesman that they were unable to access data from the main Census ...

The Census Bureau announced today that more than one-in-four same-sex couples counted in the 2010 Census was likely an opposite-sex couple, and identified a confusing questionnaire as a likely culprit ...

(CNN)– U.S. minorities now represent more than half of America’s population under the age of 1, the Census Bureau said, a historic demographic milestone with profound political, economic and social ...

Some experts are arguing that it’s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count. By Michael Wines WASHINGTON — Beyond the ...

Each decade’s census not only provides fresh statistics on the U.S. population, but also is the basis for updating a broad range of previously published federal demographic estimates and survey ...