Demographic Statistics from the U.S. Census and other sources: Research Institutes & Polls

C&RL News, October 2006
Vol. 67, No. 9. by Gary Thompson and Sean Conley

information gathered by polls and surveys from 1986-present.

Population Index database for 1986-2000

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