scholarly journals A New Estimate of the Negro Population and Negro Vital Rates in the United States, 1930-60

Demography ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Donald J. Bogue ◽  
Bhaskar D. Misra ◽  
D. P. Dandekar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
Negro Population

scholarly journals A new estimate of the negro population and negro vital rates in the united states, 1930–60

Demography ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-358
Author(s):  
Donald J. Bogue ◽  
Bhaskar D. Misra ◽  
D. P. Dandekar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
Negro Population

ANNUAL SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS—1967

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1008
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Infant Deaths ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Second Year

0nmany occasions previously this annual article has included serious criticism of the record of the United States as to infant mortality. It is satisfying, therefore, to report that 1967 marked a second year of a downward trend and that early tentative reports for 1968 are encouraging that the trend has continued. Nevertheless, as will be seen later, there is still a long way to go, and there are too many unacceptably high rates in particular population groups. Each year at this time a report is presented of the national situation in respect of the most significant vital rates, that is live births and infant deaths.

Rationalization, Standardization, or Market Diversity?

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-436
Author(s):  
Stephen Lippmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Comprehensive Data ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Broadcasting Industry

The “golden age” of radio broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s was dominated by large, national broadcasting networks. The rise of these networks is thought to have been accompanied by a dramatic decline in the number of locally oriented stations in operation in the United States. However, this presumption contradicts the dynamics of concentration and organizational foundings in a variety of other industries. In this article I use comprehensive data on the vital rates of radio station founding, failure, and density to empirically test the popular claims of network dominance in the midcentury U.S. broadcasting industry. The results indicate that locally owned commercial stations were not eliminated by the rise of national broadcasting networks. In fact, concentration in the hands of the networks actually increased the viability of locally owned radio stations.

scholarly journals How differential privacy will affect our understanding of health disparities in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (24) ◽  
pp. 13405-13412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis R. Santos-Lozada ◽  
Jeffrey T. Howard ◽  
Ashton M. Verdery
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Differential Privacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
Data Products ◽  
Racial Ethnic

The application of a currently proposed differential privacy algorithm to the 2020 United States Census data and additional data products may affect the usefulness of these data, the accuracy of estimates and rates derived from them, and critical knowledge about social phenomena such as health disparities. We test the ramifications of applying differential privacy to released data by studying estimates of US mortality rates for the overall population and three major racial/ethnic groups. We ask how changes in the denominators of these vital rates due to the implementation of differential privacy can lead to biased estimates. We situate where these changes are most likely to matter by disaggregating biases by population size, degree of urbanization, and adjacency to a metropolitan area. Our results suggest that differential privacy will more strongly affect mortality rate estimates for non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics than estimates for non-Hispanic whites. We also find significant changes in estimated mortality rates for less populous areas, with more pronounced changes when stratified by race/ethnicity. We find larger changes in estimated mortality rates for areas with lower levels of urbanization or adjacency to metropolitan areas, with these changes being greater for non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics. These findings highlight the consequences of implementing differential privacy, as proposed, for research examining population composition, particularly mortality disparities across racial/ethnic groups and along the urban/rural continuum. Overall, they demonstrate the challenges in using the data products derived from the proposed disclosure avoidance methods, while highlighting critical instances where scientific understandings may be negatively impacted.

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