User talk:Mariamalsamar

Welcome!
Hello, Mariamalsamar, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Article Evaluation
While reading the article about the U.S. Census I noticed that there was a bunch of citations which is typical for Wikipedia articles but usually a couple of them don't work when you click on them. The good thing about this article is that all the citations I clicked on (over 20) worked. Something odd I found about this article was the organization. After reading the introduction, the section immediately after was called "Legal Mandate" which talked about how the U.S. Census came into play. I felt like that should've just been apart of the introduction due to similarity, it wasn't a big deal though. I also felt like "Organizational Structure" should've been fallen under the "Data Collection' section since they were also so similar. It didn't make sense to have them separated. In terms of bias, I didn't find there to be any. I even went back and reread the article and still came up empty, which is good. After reading the article for the second time I noticed that there was a noticeable imbalance in terms of representation of different ideas. For example, ideas like "Data Stewardship" and "Organizational Structure" were a lot more represented than ideas like "Computer Equipment" and "Notable Alumni". In fact, there was absolutely no information on the "Notable Alumni" besides their name and a link which lead to an entirely different Wikipedia article. That was a bummer because I felt like including a little information about people who made significant advances to the U.S. Census should be included, even if it's only for a couple sentences. Steering away from the actual article and looking behind the scenes (the talk page) was pretty interesting because there was a lot of information mentioned in the talk page that wasn't included in the actual article which was unfortunate because I felt like a lot of it could've really boosted the article. In class, I remember us talking about the importance of race and how as time changes, the categories of race have changed with with it but in the article there was no mention of that. Race was briefly mentioned in the talk page and that was it. All in all, I felt like it was a good article but there is definitely a ton of room for improvement. ''' Generally, you did a nice evaluation! Great job! - Prof Hammad '''

Demographic Profile Editing Plan
The article I chose to pursue for this assignment is the "Demographic Profile" article. The reason I chose this wasn't because the one I was most interested in was taken (kind of true) but because it has a ton of room for improvement and is a fairly known about topic that has many parts. As of now, the only information provided on the article is very general (basically it's missing a lot) so I plan on adding some specifics like the main components of a demographic profile and examples of that. Specifics would include ideas like age, sex, education level, income level, marital status, occupation, religion, birth rate, death rate, average size of a family. I also plan on making it more organized because right now it's just a big clump of general information.

Bibliography:
 * The U.S. Census website
 * The U.N.'s Demographic Yearbooks
 * The U.N.'s Population and Vital Statistics Report
 * The World Data Bank
 * Sources for Demographic Data on The Web
 * U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Calculation Methods
Demographic data that makes up the profile is collected through multiple ways such as censuses, surveys, records, and registries in order to keep track of things such as population, births, deaths, relationship status, and more. The Census is the most important tool when it comes to tracking this data. The United States Census was first introduced in 1790 and has been taken every 10 years since under Constitutional law. While the questions in the U.S. Census vary each decade, the aim is to find more about the residence within its borders and their unique characteristics from marital status, age, sex, race, education status, employment status, and location. Even though the U.S. Census is the most relied on tool for collecting this information it still has its flaws such as overcount and undercount which has caused controversy in previous years.

United States Demographic Profile 2017
Source: CIA World Factbook