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Counting Women Veterans: Sources of Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

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This paper accompanies a slideshow presentation prepared for the Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Women Veterans. The objective of the presentation is to introduce sources of veterans’ data available from some of the household surveys administered by the U.S. Census Bureau. It includes a discussion of the history of questions from the decennial census, changes expected in Census 2010, and the recent content changes to the American Community Survey. The American Community Survey is highlighted as the source of the most current subnational statistics on veterans’ status as well as a variety of social, demographic, and economic topics relevant to the study of women veterans.

This presentation also includes a short graphical analysis of women veterans using data from the 2007 American Community Survey. The analysis compares various characteristics of women veterans and nonveterans. Variables used in this analysis include age, marital status, educational attainment, current residence, class of worker, industry, occupation, employment status, and earnings.

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