"Reporting of Two or More Races in the 1999 American Community Survey"

This paper investigates the causes of western Germany's remarkably poor performance since 1992. The paper challenges the view that the poor record of the nineties, particularly the marked deterioration in public finances since unification, might be largely attributable to unification. Instead, the analysis highlights the role of ill-timed and overly ambitious fiscal consolidation in conjunction with tight monetary policies of an exceptional length and degree. The issue of fiscal sustainability and Germany's fiscal and monetary policies are assessed both in the light of economic theory and in comparison to the best practices of other more successful countries. The analysis concludes that Germany's dismal record of the nineties must not be seen as a direct and apparently inevitable result of unification. Rather, the record arose as a perfectly unnecessary consequence of unsound macro demand policies conducted under the Bundesbank's dictate in response to it, policies that caused the severe and protracted de-stabilization of western Germany in the first place.

Reporting of Two or More Races In the 1999 American Community Survey

This study presents data on race, collected at selected sites throughout the country for the 1999 American Community Survey (ACS). In particular, the distribution of the population by race and Hispanic or Latino origin is examined, as are the reporting of multiple races, number of races, and major race combinations and the extent to which the race and Hispanic/Latino questions were not answered. Although the ACS sites were not intended to be a nationally representative sample, the study's results provide important insights into what might be learned from Census 2000.

expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Census Bureau. OVERVIEW OF RESULTS OF NEW RACE AND HISPANIC ORIGIN QUESTIONS IN CENSUS 2000

effects In October of 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made significant revisions to the standards for federal data on race and ethnicity (OMB, 1997). These standards were implemented in the 2000 Census of Population and Housing. The most significant change to the OMB standards was to allow respondents to report one or more races. In addition, the “Asian and Pacific Islander

Religion and Abortion Attitudes Among U.S. Hispanics: Findings from the 1990 Latino National Political Survey

The goal of this article is to examine the relationship between religious involvement, gauged mainly in terms of affiliation and frequency of attendance at services, and abortion attitudes among three major Hispanic subgroups: Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans. Copyright (c) 2005 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.