Web sites, hate, 153
Welfare, reform, 78-79
Western U.S.
profile of general demographic characteristics in, 2000, 9t
voter registration in, 155
voter turnout in, 156
White Americans
affirmative action and, 141
AIDS and, 99-100
AIDS cases, female adult/adolescent, by exposure category, race/ethnicity, reported through December 2001, 113t
AIDS cases, male adult/adolescent, by exposure category, race/ethnicity, reported through December 2001, 112t
AIDS cases, pediatric, by exposure category, race/ethnicity reported through December 2001, 111t
bachelor's degrees earned by, 139
birth/fertility rates, 92-93
Black/African American relations, 165
cigarette smoking, 96
college attendance of, 138-139
death rates, age-adjusted, for selected causes of death, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin: selected years 1950-2001, 115t, 117t
death rates for homicide, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin, age: selected years 1950-2001, 124t-126t
deaths, death rates by ages, sex, race, Hispanic origin, final 2000/preliminary 2001, 119t-120t
drug abuse, 97-98
education and, 129
employed persons by occupation, race, sex, 54t
employment status of civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin, 2002-03, 45t
employment status of population 16 years and older in civilian labor force by sex, race, Hispanic origin, March 2002, 51 (t 3.6)
in gangs, 152
in government occupations, 61
hate crimes and, 152-153
health, self-assessment of, 91
home ownership, 38
homicide rates, 105
homicide type by race, 1976-2000, 147 (t 8.3)
homicide victimization rates per 100,000 population by age, race, gender, 1976-2000, 146 (t 8.2)
homicides by, 148
homicides by race of offender/victim, 1976-2000, 148 (f8.2)
income of, 73-74
labor force participation, 44-45, 50
labor force status of civilian population 16 years and over by sex, race, Hispanic origin, March 2002, 51 (t 3.5)
life expectancy at birth, at 65 years of age, and 75 years of age, according to race and sex, selected years 1900-2001, 118t
life expectancy of, 104
living arrangements of children, 38
marital status of, 27-30, 32-33
marital status of people 15 years and over, by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, March 2000, 29t
occupations of, 53
prisoners under sentence of death, demographic characteristics of, 2002, 151t
in prisons/jails, 149-151
prisons/jails, number of inmates in state or federal prisons and local jails, by gender, race, Hispanic origin, age, June 30, 2002, 149 (t 8.5)
prisons/jails, number of inmates in state or federal prisons and local jails per 100,000 residents, by gender, race, Hispanic origin, age, June 30, 2002, 149 (t 8.6)
prisons/jails, persons under sentence of death, by race, 1968-2002, 152f
projections of resident population by race, Hispanic origin, nativity, 2006-10, 3t
projections of resident population by race, Hispanic origin, nativity, middle series, 2050-2070, 4t
property crime victimization, by race, Hispanic origin, household income, home ownership of households victimized, 2001, 147(t 8.4)
public opinion on criminal justice system's respect for civil rights, June 2002, 166t
public opinion on discrimination, 163
public opinion on equal educational opportunity in local communities, 1962-2001, 164 (f10.3)
public opinion on equal housing opportunity in local communities, 1989-2001, 166f
public opinion on life satisfaction of minority groups, 163, 163f
public opinion on quality of life for Hispanics, July 2003, 164 (f10.2)
SAT/ACT scores of, 137-138
student dropout rates, 135-136
teenage pregnancy statistics, 34
tuberculosis cases, case rates per 100,000 population by race/ethnicity, 1992-2002, 128t
unemployment among, 47, 48
victimization of, 145
voter registration, 155
voter turnout, 156, 158
White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU), 142
"Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001" (Swanson), 136
Wholesale trade businesses, 64, 65
"Why Asian Children Excel in School" (Caplan), 134
Widowed Americans, 33
Wiley, Steven R., 152
Wilson, Pete, 140-141
Women
African-American occupations, 53
AIDS cases, female adult/adolescent, by exposure category, race/ethnicity, reported through December 2001, 113t
AIDS transmission and, 99-100
breast cancer, 101
businesses, women-owned, 66-67
college enrollment of, 139
divorce rates, 33
employed persons by occupation, race, sex, 54t-60t
homicide victimization rates for, 145
income of, 76
labor force participation, 44-45, 46-47
life expectancy of, 104
marital status of, 27
on parole, 150
in prisons/jails, 150
teenage pregnancy, 33-34
treatment of, in book, 1
unemployment among, 48
See also Gender
Work. See Labor force participation; Occupations
Work permits, 44
Workers
full-time, year-round with annual earnings of $35,000 or more by detailed Hispanic origin, 2001, 79f
median earnings of full-time, year- round, 15 years old and over by sex 1967-2002, 78f
World War I, 43, 44
World War II
Asian immigration and, 16
labor force and, 43, 44
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