FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000 Public Information Office CB00-190 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov Jesse McKinnon 301-457-2402 Census Bureau Releases Report on African American Population A Commerce Department's Census Bureau report released today brings together data on a wide range of topics related to the African American population. The report, The Black Population in the United States: March 1999, is a compilation of data released on the Internet last February. The data are not from Census 2000. The first Census 2000 data on race will be released beginning March 2001. Subjects covered in the printed report include geographic distribution, age and sex distribution, family type and size, educational attainment, labor force participation and unemployment, occupation, family income and poverty status. Estimates in the report are based on data collected in the March 1999 Current Population Survey. As in all surveys, the estimates are subject to sampling and nonsampling error.-X-
