UCLA AASC and NCAPACD: Just Released Census Estimates of Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin for States and Counties, 2000 - 2005

The Joint Census Information Center of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the National Coalition of Asian Pacific American Community Development  announces the release today by the U.S. Census Bureau of the "annual estimates of state and county populations by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin for 2000 to 2005."

The estimates for each race and Hispanic group are cross-tabulated by single year of age and selected age groups for each state and by five-year age groups for counties of 1 million residents or more. In addition to the estimates for states and counties, this release contains population estimates by age and sex for Puerto Rico and its municipios.

Please go to the following link to download Excel and CSV files:

<http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php>.

The Census Bureau develops state and county population estimates by characteristics using administrative records on births, deaths and migration to estimate population change from the most recent census. For more detail regarding the methodology, please see: <http://www.census.gov/popest/topics/methodology>.