Description
The 5TH edition of Demographics of the U.S. focuses tightly on what’s happening in this century—since the year 2000. Demographics of the U.S. collects, in one place, the broad range of demographic and socioeconomic trends as we veered off the path to prosperity. It also shows where we’ve been ever since.
So far, the story of the 21st century is mostly one of decline. The list of declines is a long one, including household income and wealth, marriages and births, homeownership, and small town America. Demographics of the U.S. examines in hundreds of tables the surprisingly disruptive early years of the century—a compilation of often sobering statistics that cannot be found in one place anywhere else. Demographics of the U.S. is a reference tool for those who want perspective on the many ongoing changes in American life—a perspective critical for understanding what the future will hold. The reference includes single-year data on many topics, including educational attainment, college costs, health status, cigarette smoking, homeownership, household income, earnings, poverty rates, labor force participation, self-employment, living arrangements, marital status, immigration, geographic mobility, and more. It also provides necessary perspective, highlighting the most important trends of the 21st century—trends everyone should be tracking.
Most of the tables are based on data collected by the federal government, in particular the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Federal Reserve Board. While the federal government collected most of the information published here, the tables in Demographics of the U.S. are not simply reprints of government spreadsheets. Instead, New Strategist’s author, demographer Cheryl Russell, individually compiled and created the tables, adding percent change, index, and other calculations to reveal the stories behind the numbers.
Demographics of the U.S. explains the increasingly complex, often confusing, and rapidly changing nation we live in today. It makes sense of our recent past and shines a light on our future. The reference is divided into 11 chapters, organized alphabetically: Attitudes, Education, Health, Housing, Income, Labor Force, Living Arrangements, Population, Spending, Time Use, and Wealth.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Marketers, advertisers, small businesses, large corporations, entrepreneurs, consultants, business students, and the libraries that serve them.
585 pages; July 2017
ISBN 978-1-937737-51-1 (hardcover); ISBN 978-1-937737-52-8 (paper)
PDF ISBN: 978-1-937737-53-5
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Trends examined
age at first marriage
alcoholic beverages, spending on
Alzheimer’s disease
American Indians
apparel, spending on
Asians
assets, financial
assets, nonfinancial
associate’s degrees
attitude toward abortion
attitude toward Bible
attitude toward death penalty
attitude toward finances
attitude toward gay marriage
attitude toward gun laws
attitude toward sex roles
attitude toward working
bachelor’s degrees
Bible
birth control
births
Blacks
business equity
cancer
capital punishment
cash contributions, spending on
Catholic religion
children
cigarette smoking
clothing, spending on
college costs
college degrees
college enrollment
commuting
condom use
confidence in business
confidence in congress
confidence in education
confidence in executive branch of government
confidence in medical leaders
confidence in press
confidence in Supreme Court
conservative identification
contraceptive use
credit card debt
deaths
debt
Democrats
diabetes
doctoral degrees
drug use
dual-earners
earners
earnings
eating, time spent
education debt
education, spending on
educational attainment
employment
entertainment, spending on
fairness
female-headed families
fertility rate
finances, attitude toward
food, spending on
foreign-born population
gay marriage
geographic mobility
gifts, spending on
God, belief in
grooming, time spent
gun ownership
happiness
health care, spending on
health conditions
health insurance
health status
heart disease
helpfulness
high blood pressure
Hispanics
homeowners
homeownership rate
homosexuality
hospital stays
household services, spending on
households
housework, time spent
housing, spending on
hypertension
immigrants
income
industry
Jewish religion
job tenure
labor force
liberal identification
life expectancy
life insurance
living arrangements
male-headed families
malignant neoplasm
marijuana
marital status
marriage
married couples
master’s degrees
Medicaid
Medicare
men
metropolitan areas
military health care
minorities
mobility
moderate political identification
mortgage debt
mutual funds
neighborhood, integrated
net worth
obesity
occupation
overweight
parents
people living alone
personal care products and services, spending on
personal insurance and pensions, spending on
pets, time spent
political attitudes
population
poverty
prescription drugs
projections of labor force
projections of occupation
projections of population
property taxes
Protestant religion
public transportation
race
reading
region
religion
religious activities, time spent
renters
Republicans
retirement accounts
same-sex households
school enrollment
self-employment
sex, homosexual
sex, premarital
sex roles
shopping, time spent
single parents
sleeping, time spent
smoking
socializing, time spent
spending
sports, time spent
states
sterilization
stock ownership
stroke
student loans
suicide
Supreme Court
television, time spent
time use
tobacco products, spending on
transaction accounts
transportation, spending on
travel to work
trust
tuition
unemployment
union representation
utilities, spending on
vehicle loans
vehicles
volunteering, time spent
voting
wealth
weight
Whites, non-Hispanic
wives earning more than husbands
women
work, time spent
Reviews
“Recommended for individuals and for libraries serving all age and educational groups.”
—American Reference Books Annual
“A good source of data.”
—CHOICE
