Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future
Wendy Naus
Where do you live? How old are you? Did you finish college? Are you
married? Do you have any children? Have you recently moved? What type of
job do you have? These may seem like mundane questions, but to demographers
the answers yield data that are critical to understanding today’s society
and predicting the future.
For 95 years, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has used demographic
data to help people make informed decisions that affect communities around
the world. PRB works in par