A lot has changed since last week’s hockey match.  After Canada’s overtime gold medal victory, local pride abounds.  Will this rejuvenated national spirit influence the upcoming census? In 2000–just two years after Canada’s 1998 olympic hockey loss–481,871 US residents checked the box for Canadian ancestry on the census form.  Interestingly, not even all of the foreign-born more...

In his latest Gotham Gazette demographics column “Census Could Set Off Major Redistricting in State,” Social Explorer’s Andrew Beveridge writes about the upcoming Census and its impact on representation for New York State legislators and congressional representatives. Maps of New York State Senate Districts Showing Deviation from Ideal Population Size He makes predictions about the loss of a congressional more...

As Olympic fans everywhere know, this week the USA hockey team beat Canada’s 5 to 3.  Who was watching the game? According to the 2000 Census, 820,771 people residing in the US were born in Canada, which was aboot 2.6 percent of the foreign-born population and 0.3 percent of the entire population. Chances are, you live near a more...

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) named Social Explorer as an Outstanding Reference Source for 2010 this week at the mid-winter American Library Association conference. more...

The earthquake destruction and rescue mobilization in Haiti are much in the news.  Using Social Explorer, you can see the presence of Haitians in the US through maps and reports. Haiti has a population of 9,035,536, according to the 2009 CIA World Fact Book.  Haiti loses population each year to emmigration, and many of those people leaving more...