In Silicon Valley, selling people on the census in Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Tagalog is so yesteryear. Census workers are now speaking Punjabi at gurdwaras, Somali at mosques and Hindi at ...

The number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home has nearly tripled over the past three decades, far outpacing the overall population growth, U.S. data ...

Vol. 81, No. 2/3, Special Issue on Demography and Cultural Macroevolution (April-June 2009), pp. 259-274 (16 pages) Previous empirical studies of population size and language change have produced ...

The Census bureau is spending $133 million between January and May to publicize the national head-count -- in 28 languages, including some as obscure as Hmong. The census, conducted every 10 years, is ...

There will be more than twice as many language options for the 2020 census than in previous years, NPR reports, making the nationwide survey more accessible to a variety of U.S. residents. For the ...

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ST. PAUL — The 2020 Census forms can now be filled out online in 13 different languages so that immigrants are not overlooked. But local officials are concerned that Hmong and Somali — two of the most ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly one in five Americans speaks a language other than English at home, the Census Bureau says, after a surge of nearly 50 percent during the past decade. Most speak Spanish, ...

OTTAWA – Have the two forces that have defined Canadian culture for the past 40 years – multiculturalism and bilingualism – turned on each other? The final release of 2011 census data this week will ...