PUB TYPE Collected Works- Serials (022)-- Tests/Evaluation Instruments (160) JOURNAL CIT Current Population Reports; Series P-20 n455 Oct

This document presents data on the demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the Hispanic origin population in the United States obtained through the March 1991 supplement to the Current Population Survey of the Bureau of the Census. Differences are highlighted in selected characteristics of Hispanic Americans compared between March 1991 and March 1983, the end of the last recessionary period, and the first year after the Census Bureau introduced Hispanic Amel-ican population controls based on the 1980 Census. Some of the principal findings include the following: (1) the labor force participation rate of Hispanic origin males in March 1991 was higher than that of Non-Hispanic males; (2) the proportion of Hispanic Americans 25 years or older who had completed 4 years of high school or more was 51 percent in 1991, 5 percent higher than 1983; (3) the aggregate before tax money incom