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Title: Change in the Early Childhood and School Age Population in Texas, 2000 to 2010, and Projected to 2015

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The future of the United States is critically tied to the success of the education of children in Texas. While accounting for only 15.7 percent of growth in the total population in the United States between 2000 and 2010, Texas accounted for an equivalent of 53.2 percent of the growth in the early childhood and school age population (ages 0-12)1 alone [an increase of 732,166 children or a 17.2 percent change between 2000 and 2010 (see Table 1)]. This growth is more than the combined growth in the early childhood and school age populations for Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida [ranked second through fourth in growth for this age group (see Table 2)]. By 2010, 9.3 percent of the early childhood and school age population in the United States resided in Texas. Only California had more children in this age group (at 12.3 percent of the U.S. population ages 0 through 12). In the 2000 to 2010 decade, Texas added more people, including those in the early childhood and school ages, than any other state (4.3 million people and 732,166 children) and experienced the fifth largest percentage growth in the total and early childhood and school age population of any state in the nation [a change of 20.6 and 17.2 percent, respectively (see Tables 2 and 3)]...

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Authors: Hough, George; Murdock, Steve H.; Perez, Debbie; Cline, Michael

Publisher: Rice University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage

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