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Facts and Figures
We hope to develop this section into a more specific source of demographic and other information about Virginia's Hispanic populations. In the meantime, we offer the information sources below as a helpful bibliography of research resources.
Virginia Information
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States:
- Virginia (In English)
- 2003 Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission of the Virginia General Assembly (JLARC)
- Report (In English)
- Parents’ Guide to Special Education/Una Guía Para Padres Sobre Educación Especial –
- Virginia Department of Education/Departmento de Educación de Virginia (En español)
National Information
- National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care -
- US Department of Health and Human Services 2001 Report (In English)
- 2005 National Health Care Disparities Report:
- US Department of Health and Human Services (In English)
- We the People: Hispanics in the United States –
- Census 2000 special report on Hispanic origin population (In English)
- Hispanic Owned Firms:
- 2002 Census report (In English)
- Status and Trends in the Education of Hispanics –
- 2003 National Center for Education Statistics report (In English)
- Language Barriers to Health Care in the United States:
- The New England
Journal of Medicine, Volume 355, Number 3, pages 229 –
231, July 20, 2006 (In English)