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Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2008

This statistical profile of the Latino population is based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is the largest household survey in the United States, with a sample of about 3 million addresses. It covers virtually the same topics as those in the long form of the decennial census. The ACS is designed to provide estimates of the size and characteristics of the resident population, which includes persons living in households and, for the first time, persons living in group quarters.

The specific data sources for this statistical profile are the 1% sample of the 2008 ACS Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and the 5% sample of the 2000 Census IPUMS provided by the University of Minnesota.¹ The IPUMS assigns uniform codes, to the extent possible, to data collected by the decennial census and the ACS from 1850 to 2008. Due to differences in the way in which the IPUMS and Census Bureau adjust income data and assign poverty status, data provided in Tables 27 - 34 might differ from data on these variables that are provided by the Census Bureau. For more information about the IPUMS, including variable definition and sampling error, please visit usa.ipums.org/usa/design.shtml. To learn more about the sampling strategy and associated error of the 2000 Census or the 2008 American Community Survey, please refer to Chapter 8 of Summary File 3: 2000 at www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf and www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/ACS/accuracy2008.pdf, respectively.

Because those persons living in group quarters were not included in the 2005 ACS, the data contained in this profile of Hispanics, tabulated from the 2008 ACS, are not comparable with the data provided in the Pew Hispanic Center's Statistical Portrait of Hispanics at Mid-Decade.

For the purposes of this statistical portrait, persons born in Puerto Rico and other outlying territories of the U.S. are included in the native-born Hispanic population. Hispanics who identified as naturalized citizens or non-citizens are included in the foreign-born Hispanic population.

Data tabulations were performed by Daniel Dockterman and Gabriel Velasco.

¹Steven Ruggles, Matthew Sobek, Trent Alexander, Catherine A. Fitch, Ronald Goeken, Patricia Kelly Hall, Miriam King, and Chad Ronnander. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 3.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center [producer and distributor], 2004. http://usa.ipums.org/usa

Tables 1-40: Complete "Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2008"

Table 1: Population by Race and Ethnicity: 2000 and 2008
Table 2: Population Change by Race and Ethnicity: 2000 and 2008
Table 3: Racial Self-Identification Among Hispanics and Non-Hispanics: 2008
Table 4: Hispanic Population by Nativity: 2000 and 2008
Table 5: Change in the Hispanic Population by Nativity: 2000 and 2008
Table 6: Detailed Hispanic Origin: 2008
Table 7: Nativity by Detailed Hispanic Origin: 2008
Table 8: Race and Ethnicity by Sex and Age: 2008
Table 9: Median Age in Years by Sex, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 10: Hispanic Nativity Groups by Sex and Age: 2008
Table 10a: Age and Gender Distributions for Ethnicity and Nativity Groups: 2008
Table 11: Fertility in the Past Year by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 12: Fertility in the Past Year by Marital Status, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 13: Hispanic Population by State: 2008
Table 14: Change in the Hispanic Population by State: 2008
Table 15: Distribution of Hispanics Across States: 2000 and 2008
Table 16: Marital Status by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 17: Persons by Household Type, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 18: Heads of Households by Family Size, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 19: Living Arrangements of Children by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 20: Language Spoken at Home and English-Speaking Ability by Age, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 21: Language Spoken at Home and English-Speaking Ability Among Foreign-Born Hispanics by Date of Arrival and Age: 2008
Table 22: Educational Attainment by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 23: Educational Attainment of Foreign-Born Hispanics: 2000 and 2008
Table 24: School Enrollment by Race and Ethnicity: 2000 and 2008
Table 25: High School Dropouts by Race and Ethnicity: 2000 and 2008
Table 26: College Enrollment by Race and Ethnicity: 2000 and 2008
Table 27: Occupation by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 28: Detailed Occupation by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 29: Industry by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 30: Detailed Industry by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 31: Persons by Personal Earnings, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 32: Median Personal Earnings by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 33: Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Personal Earnings, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 34: Median Personal Earnings for Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 35: Households by Income, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 36: Median Household Income by Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 37: Poverty by Age, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 38: Persons Without Health Insurance, by Age, Race and Ethnicity: 2008
Table 39: Housing Tenure by Race and Ethnicity: 2000 and 2008
Table 40: Homeownership Among Foreign-Born Hispanic Heads of Households by Date of Arrival: 2008