About Ameristat



	AmeriStat is developed by PRB in partnership with demographer Bill Frey and a team of his colleagues from the University of Michigan and the State University of New York at Albany.

	AmeriStat gives you instant summaries — in graphics and text — of the demographic characteristics of the U.S. population: Marriage and Family. Population Estimates and Projections Education Race and Ethnicity Income and Poverty Foreign-Born Population Migration Children Older Population Mortality Fertility Political Arithmetic Labor Force and Employment

	AmeriStat saves you the time of mining large data files from a range of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau. You’ll also have links to other Web sites for additional, more detailed information. AmeriStat will be updated immediately when new and relevant information is released. AmeriStat will do all the work that’s necessary to illuminate the population trends in the United States. Not only current trends but historical trends as well. For each of the 13 topics that AmeriStat covers, data will be shown, whenever possible, for five-year data points going back to 1970. Single-year data will be shown for more recent years.

	AmeriStat Sponsors The Population Reference Bureau is the leader in providing timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications. PRB informs policymakers, educators, the media, and concerned citizens working in the public interest around the world through a broad range of activities, including publications, information services, seminars and workshops, and technical support. We work with both public-sector and private-sector partners. Our activities are funded by government contracts, foundation grants, individual and corporate contributions, and the sale of our publications. The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) is a university-based organization that creates demographic media, such as user guides, Web sites, hands-on classroom computer materials, that make U.S. census data and surveys accessible to educators, policymakers, and informed citizens. SSDAN is directed by Professor William Frey. SSDAN utilizes facilities at the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, SUNY-Albany, and the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. SSDAN activities have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Public Data Queries, Inc., and the U.S. Census Bureau.