'US and California Compared\r'

'The unify States count is taken each ten years in club for the U. S. giving medication to count exactly how many a nonher(prenominal) an(prenominal) spate live in the rude to the best of its abilities. Aside from taking the creation, the nose count asks many other questions, such as the epoch of the persons living in a given theater, their flow and ethnicity, the langu come ons that ar utter at home, their didacticsal attainment level, and househ former(a) income. These questions, when answered by the entire universe, provide the government a sense of the report card and the needfully of its spate.\r\nWithout this information, public work such as education, hospitals, health cargon, and social security bathnot be provided to all in need and and then it is weighty entropy that deserves our careful examination. For my limit report card, I restrain decided to discriminate the info of the acres of atomic summate 20 to the united States of America to d iscover how analogous or distinguishable the sets of entropy may be. I would predict any(prenominal) of these entropy to be similar, such as climb on distribution, receivable to the position that calcium is a comparatively commodious state with a enlarged enough population that it would serve as a reasonably good test of the entire nation.\r\nHowever, I would expect to define differences in incidentors such as race and ethnicity and the spoken languages spoken at home, because California has a relatively large Hispanic and Asian population than most other states in the US. Also, the income level of California get out be slightly exalteder than the nation repayable to the mankind of both(prenominal) large metropolitan cities in the state. The paper takes a careful look at the various socio-demographic inconsistents that are taken by the unify States Census in order to compare the state of California to the nation as a whole.\r\nThe first obvious step in my psychoanalysis is to look at both populations counted by the 1990 join States census. The population of the coupled States is estimated to be 248,709,873 and California is estimated to be 29,760,021. This entropy is important to this paper because when making comparisons surrounded by the cardinal geographic locations, I result use roles taken from the actual data given in the census dual-lane by the total populations. This way, the comparisons are scaley in relation to one another(prenominal) and it is easier to analyze and to exercise comparisons. The first demographic variable that I go away psychoanalyze is the age distribution amongst the two areas.\r\nThe age distribution given by the population age gain (graphical record 1) limn that both are quite similar, with a pyramid-like shape starting from age 25 to 80+, with the large base of the pyramid beginning at age 25. From age 0 to 24, there is an overall narrowing in from the base of the pyramid to a high(pre nominal) place as the ages decrease, indicating a fewer way out of peck vulcanized 0 through with(predicate) 24. It means that the largest summate of persons in both regions is between the ages of 25 and 34 in 1990. This implies that there were a larger go of births in the 1950s and 1960s than in the mid-seventies and 1980s.\r\nThis phenomenon can be explained by the situation that the baby-boom children had reached reproductive stage in their lives and gave birth to many babies in the 50s and 60s. thither is as well relatively fewer race aged 45 to 80+. The speeding narrow upper region of the graph, ages 65 and up, can be explained by the fact that the life expectancy in the United States is around 70 years old and it is natural to see a tapered off of the population at these ages. However, the age group from 45 to 64 is besides quite narrow. This is most likely callable to the fact that these are the people who fought in World War II.\r\nLooking at the graph, the onl y noticeable difference between the two regions is that California has a relatively fewer number of people aged 10 through 19. This could be payable to many economic, social, and physical factors in the 1970s that affected California births, but not the entire nation. I would predict that since children of the baby-boomers (ages 25 to 34) have now reached reproductive stage, the census 2000 would show that the base of the graph would stretch forth to grow a little chip gear wider, from babies being born in the 1990s. The second demographic variable I leave focus on is the racial newspaper of California and the United States.\r\nGraph 2 shows the personas of the total population, which fall under the five-spot racial categories: 1. vacuous 2. Black 3. American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut 4. Asian or peaceable islander and 5. Other. It is important to note that people of Hispanic origin are in the main categorized as either White or Other, depending on how each somebody has ch osen to categorize him or herself. The phratry, Other, too include people who are mixed, such as Mulatto, Creole, and Mestizo. The breakdown of the races are pretty similar, as can be seen by the graph with Whites being the overwhelming legal age of the total population for both regions.\r\nHowever, it may be interesting to note that the origins of the people who realize up the White class for the two regions may be quite diametrical. For the United States, the newspaper of the people who make up the White home are mostly of European origin. The origin of people who make up the White category for California also include many people of European origin, but also many of Hispanic origin. This is collectible to the fact that California shares the border with Mexico and thereof would have a larger Mexican or Latino population.\r\nAlso due to the large Mexican and Latino population, the Other category for California is almost 10% larger than for the United States. The lower Bl ack population in California can be attributed to the fact that the majority of Blacks in this country are saturated in the grey states of the US, such as Alabama, raising the composition for the nation, but not for California. Lastly, the Asian and peace-loving Islander category is almost 8% higher(prenominal) in California because many Asians melt to be concentrated on the west coast of the US. The third socio-demographic variable I will examine is language spoken at home.\r\nThe first function to note on Graph 3 is that side is spoken in the majority of homes both in California and the United States. The population give tongue toing languages other than English at home is higher in California due to the racial composition examined above. The higher Asian/Pacific Islander and Latino concentration has raised this California section to twice that of the US. Of these â€Å"other” languages, the existence of Spanish spoken in homes is more than than 10 percent higher i n California than in the rest of the nation. Subsequently, the English at home contingent will be smaller in percentage comparison for California.\r\nThis example of data is exceedingly important to the government because it raises issues such as the appropriateness of ESL programs, bilingual education, and public services that must be provided to the public in many languages. Comparing two different regions such as California and the US may seem useless due to the similar data, but it is differences such as these that make the census crucial data that deserve our careful analysis. Educational advancement is another variable I will analyze between the two regions. Graph 4 reveals that in the US, highschool graduates (including equivalency) make up the highest percentage of education attained.\r\nThis is not surprising because formal education in the US is required for all children until the age of 14 through 18, depending on the state, and therefore it is expected that most child ren would finish high school. In California, people attending some college without obtaining a degree make up the highest percentage. This implies that California”s students have a tendency to pursue their education foster than the national student. The higher percentage of Californian”s attending some college can be attributed to the proliferation of junior colleges in the state.\r\nThe consult for California should lie in the fact that a higher percentage of children do not progress beyond the ninth grade than in the nation. This may be attributed to the large Spanish speaking population who are cushioned in schools by bilingual teachers during their elementary and secondary development years but are go away to themselves in non-bilingual high schools to survive on their own and as a result, destroy out. Finally, the comparison of household income between California and the US shows that income levels for both regions are concentrated under $60,000 per year (Grap h 5).\r\nIn analyzing these data, I have taken the income data from the census and divided that figure with the total number of households, not the population, so that a cultivate comparison between the income of each households would be realistic. In general, Californians have higher income than the US as a whole. The 1990 Census shows that the median value household income of California is $35,798. This figure is higher than the national median household income of $30,056. The data on the graph shows that the higher percentage of Californians earn incomes higher than $30,000.\r\nThe higher income in California can be attributed to the two metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco as mentioned earlier and additionally, to the new-fangled boom of the computer and internet intentness in Silicon Valley, which has increased the number of Californians earning higher wages. The different variables examined in this paper have revealed several demographic trends between Cali fornia and the US as a whole. While the two regions share similar demographic profiles, several differences arise upon nestled analysis of the data. Generally, California has a higher concentration of racial minorities.\r\nThus, more families speak languages other than English at home. The data also shows that a higher percentage of Californians pursue degrees in higher education than the national percentage. Since college graduatess and advanced degree holders tend to earn higher wages, the data for household income is consistent with the previous observation as more Californians are in the higher income bracket. It can then be conclude that California is more racially versatile than most other states, and that Californians tend to do better economically than the rest of the nation.\r\nThis type of analysis would not have been possible without the United States Census, which I believe is an important tool that allows researchers to do their own analysis with the hard data that i t provides. The different conclusions I have drawn from this paper clearly indicate a need for different public programs that are specifically knowing for each individual state because the United States is not made up of a homogeneous group of people, but is sedate of an exremely diverse group of individuals.\r\n'