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Article Evaluation
When reading The US Census Bureau article, everything in the article was relevant to the article topic. Something that distracted me however was when they were talking about handheld computers. Even though it provided information on how they used computers for the first time for the census, it then went on about how much money it saved and the important of integrity of private information. I just felt it was not relevant to the actual concept of the US Census and went off topic for a little while.The article did stay neutral throughout since there were no first person views and no opinions on the US Census itself. It was mostly just facts on the census and how it was developed. It was a lot of history on who and how they created it for. They did not seem biased to a particular position as to there aren't really any position to take in the census in this article because it is merely facts.The few citations I checked have links that work which makes the article much more credible. The source does support the claims in the article as they are a lot of departments of the government that the article used. The sources used are all neutral sources as well. They do not seem biased as they are merely facts as well. For example, The Department of Commerce and Labor was mainly on facts of how they are controlling the excess of big businesses. A lot of the number are out of date like the employees since they last updated that in 2006. The number of employees was at 5,593 which must have increased immensely since then. Also, the annual budget has not been updated since 2011 where the budget was at $1.3 billion and it might have gone down since then. The Talk page consisted of what to delete in the article and also what was needed to add to the article. Everyone was respectful and wanted to help each other know more information about the census. People also made sure that URL's are working and making sure it was credible. There was a topic on Japan that was behind the scenes where they used it to locate Japanese-Americans for distrust, but there was not a credible source for the information.The article was rated C-class and part of four WikiProjects. Wikipedia discusses the census differently from the way we've talked about in class is it focuses on how the census came to be and who was all a part of it. It also showed how the issues and errors in more details and how that changed the census overall. It also showed all the surveys that were conducted over the decades. ''' I like your evaluation! Nice work! - Prof Hammad '''

Plans for Contribution to Selected Article
There is not much said about how the aging of Japan is going to impact the future and how it's going to impact the country. I, also, plan to add the dependency ratios and talking about the future population of Japan. In addition, I want to add to why there are higher life expectancies and lower fertilities in Japan compared to other countries. There also are not immigrants in Japan due to many reasons and I want to add some of that as well. There also isn't any information on which stage Japan is in on the demographic transition model.

Additions to Aging in Japan
[Additions to Government Policies]

Immigration is very unpopular in Japan because the government favored homogeneity throughout their country. Homogeneity is, in this case, the same race throughout the country. The country has had a history of being isolated from foreigners starting from 1641-1853. Japan only allowed traders from China and Netherlands to enter the Port of Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu.

Citizenship is only gained when both parents of a child are of Japanese nationality. However, immigration might save their economy due to the low percentage of the working-age population. Opening up more desired, favorable jobs will bring in immigrants who are in the working-age population. This will help better the economy and the elders will be taken care of by the influx of immigrants. Only two percent of the total population is made up of foreign residents which shows that there might not be much opportunities for foreigners to thrive on.

Immigrants would have to increase by eight percent, in order for Japan's economy to be stable. Japan's government is first trying to increase tourism rates which increases their economy and brings in foreign workers. The government has also recruited international students which allow foreigners to begin work and potentially stay in Japan to help the economy. However, Japan is strict when accepting refugees into their country. Only 27 people out of 7,500 refugee applicants were granted into Japan in 2015. Though, Japan provides high levels of foreign and humanitarian aid. In 2016, there was a 44% increase in asylum seekers to Japan from Indonesia, Nepal, and the Philippines. Since Japan did not desire low-skilled workers to enter, many people went through the asylum route instead. This allowed immigrants to apply for the asylum and begin work six months after the application. However, it did not allow foreigners without valid visas to apply for work.

[Additions to Political Effects]

With the increasing older population and decreasing young population, 38% percent of the population will be people aged 65 and older by 2065. This concludes that Japan has the highest amount of public debt in the world because of the low fertility rates and aging population. Japan's government has spent almost half of its tax revenue trying to recover from their debt. According to IMF, Japan has a 246.14 debt percentage of GDP making it the highest public debt.

[Additions to Comparisons with other countries] According to the World Health Organization, Japanese people are able to live 75 years without any disabilities and fully healthy compared to other countries. Also, American women usually live to around 81 years and American men 76; but compared to Japan, women live to around 87 years and men to 80 years. There is demographic data that shows Japan is an older and more quickly aging society than United States. Japan, also, has reached the condition aging much faster than other developed countries, and they have the highest life expectancy rate among developed countries. They, also, have the highest proportion of the elderly population as well with the highest population decline of developed countries.

 Really nice additions - a little more in the aging comparisons could be useful in adding information that is related to our course/the DTM - Prof H 

Peer Review
Hi,

I think you have a lot of great information here! I think that this an important addition to the original article. I like that you provided background information on immigration viewpoints in Japan before presenting Japan's efforts to combat the changing age structure with immigration. I think you do a good job presenting both sides of the issue without bias.

One thing I would suggest is adding the citation links throughout the paragraph, as it was difficult for me to determine what information should be cited and which source it is coming by just looking at here (and without referring back to each source).

Otherwise, good stuff!

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Thank you for your advice! I'll add more information for more of my citations!

Hi,

I like the new additions you made. There is a lot of information here that I remember briefly talking about in class, and it looks like you went more in depth and supported it with credible sources. I can see that you added the citations throughout your work, it definitely makes it easier to reference the work! :)

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