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Article evaluation
Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

Overall, it seems that everything presented in the article was relevant to the United States Census Bureau. Though, I think the article could do without the lengthy "ongoing surveys" sections, because most of these aren't even surveys that the U.S. Census Bureau conduct themselves.

·      Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

Most of the article seems to be neutral except for the "Data stewardship" section. This section heavily focuses on the negative political influence on the skewing of the census data collection. For example, it is stated that some of the census data is unclear due to political influences. However, it is never mentioned that unclear results can also arise from content error being from people misunderstanding the questions asked, or people being missed (undercounted) or counted (overcounted) more than once due to other circumstances.

·      Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

Yes, as stated above the article focuses on political influences on the census data.

·      Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

The first citation link works. However, it does not support what is stated. The link/source does not define the Bureau of the Census. The first link under the "legal mandate" section works, and it also takes the reader to Article 1 of the US Constitution, where it can be seen under section II that the census must be conducted every 10 years.

·       Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

A lot of the claims seem to be backed up other wiki articles. If it were me, I would use more reliable, external sources. However, there were some sources that were from government websites, which tend to reliable.

·      Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

The article mentions the use of HHC in 2010. Upcoming plans for the transition to electronic data collection and other mechanisms to improve data collection for the 2020 census could be included.

·       Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

Much of the conversations are focused on correcting inaccurate claims and also asking for reliable sources/citations to back up any claim that was made.

·      How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

This article is rated of C-class (low importance). It is a part of 4 WikiProjects.

·      How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

In class, we talked about what the many of the topics listed in the Wiki article. However, our class discussions did not include the extensive list of ongoing surveys listed, organizational structure, computer equipment and other random bits of history included in the article. Also, in class we discussed other sources of data inaccuracies, rather than political influences, how the census questions have changed over time and we also discussed the plans for the 2020 census. ''' No Need to restate the questions for the evaluation - next time, try writing one paragraph to answer all of these evaluation questions - still, nice job! - Prof Hammad '''

The topic I chose is "replacement migration." I want to add a section for potential push/pull factors that influence replacement migration under the first section. I want to add this section to further elaborate on the benefits of replacement migration. In addition to adding benefits, I would like to expand more on the criticisms section of problems that may arise with replacement migration. I also want to add how replacement migration impacts host countries by giving specific examples of at least one country. This portion could potentially fit under the results section.

Edits
In demography, replacement migration is a theory of migration needed for a region to achieve a particular objective (demographic, economic or social). Generally, studies using this concept have as an objective to avoid the decline of total population and the decline of the working-age population.

Often, these overall declines in the population are influenced by low fertility rates. When fertility is lower than the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman and there is a longer life expectancy, this changes the age structure over time. Overall, the population will start to decline as there will not be enough children born to replace the population of people lost and the proportion of older individuals composing the population will continue to increase. One concern from this is that the age-dependency ratio will be affected, as the working-age population will have more dependents in older age to support. Therefore, replacement migration has been a proposed mechanism to try and combat declining population size, aging populations and help replenish the number of people in the working age groups.

Projections calculating migration replacement are primarily demographics and theoretical exercises and not forecasts or recommendations.However, this demographic information can help prompt governments to facilitate replacement migration by making policy changes.

The concept of replacement migration may vary according to the study and depending on the context in which it applies. It may be a number of annual immigrants, a net migration, an additional number of immigrants compared to a reference scenario, etc.

Criticism
Replacement migration as presented by the United Nations Population Division in 2000 is largely perceived as unrealistic as a singular way of fighting population ageing. One reason being that replacement migration tends to only to be a temporary fix to aging populations. Instead of using replacement migration to combat declining and aging populations, government policy and social changes could be implemented. Therefore, replacement migration is said to be more useful as an analytical or hypothetical tool.

Increased migration could decrease the old age dependency ratio, which is expected to grow considerably in the next decades. However, the immigration need to effectively counter the greying of many industrialised economies is unrealistically high.

Replacement migration is also feared to negatively impact the environment. Declining and aging populations are typically seen in more developed countries, as more developed countries have better health care infrastructure and access to education that both decreases mortality rates and subsequently fertility rates in the population. Immigrants are typically moving from areas that have less resources or economic opportunities, as access to more resources and economic prosperity can be pull factor for this migrants to move to a new country. A large influx of immigrants from an area that is low or lacks resources to a country that has more resources may change the availability of resources since there will be more people. Resources could be food, water, land, energy etc.

Certain countries may be opposed to international immigration. Reasons such as xenophobia can subject new immigrants to discrimination, thus, the immigrants may have trouble assimilating to their new country. New migrants may retain their cultural and social foundations of their home countries. Over time, these new migrants will have children who can retain these values from their parents. This could change the country by both altering the ethnic and racial composition and also the culture.

I think there is an opportunity here to do a better copy-edit in this criticism section and add in some of the material we've covered in class - Prof H