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AIEA


A race/origin category used by the Census Bureau that consists of American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts.
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API


A race/origin category used by the Census Bureau that consists of Asian or Pacific Island descent.
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B.A.


A "bachelor of arts" degree. A B.A. is earned at a college or university and requires three or more years of full-time study, or part-time equivalent, in a prescribed course of undergraduate curriculum designed to prepare the student for professional work or graduate study. B.A. is also used here to stand for any four-year college degree, [..]
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Central City


A central city is the largest city within a "metropolitan" area, as defined by the Census Bureau. Additional cities within the metropolitan area can also be classified as "central cities" if they meet certain employment, population, and employment/residence ratio requirements.
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computer


A "computer" is defined for Current Population Surveys as a personal or home workstation having a typewriter-like keyboard connected to a laptop computer, mini-computer, or mainframe computer.
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e-mail


The digital transmission of a message from one person to another using a communications network.
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employed


Employed persons comprise (1) all civilians who, during the survey week, do any work at all as paid employees or in their own business or profession, or on their own farm, or who work 15 hours or more as unpaid workers on a farm in a business operated by a member of the family; and (2) all those who have jobs but who are not working because of illn [..]
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Family


A family is a group of two persons or more (one of whom is the householder) residing together and related by birth, marriage, or adoption.
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Family Household


A family household is a household maintained by a family (as defined above), and may include among the household members any unrelated persons who may be residing there. The number of family households is equal to the number of families. The count of family household members differs from the count of family members, however, in that the family hous [..]
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Hispanic origin


Persons of Hispanic origin are determined through self identification by origin or descent. Persons of Hispanic origin are those who indicated that their origin was Mexican-American, Chicano, Mexican, Mexicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Hispanic.
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