V Encuentro Proceedings and Conclusions

Proceedings and Conclusions of the V National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Ministry | 197 The V Encuentro National Research Team has prepared summaries of the key demographic, social, and religious statistics for every Latin Rite Catholic diocese and episcopal region in the United States. A detailed explanation of the methodology that was utilized in preparing the data, together with links to the diocesan and regional reports, are available on the V Encuentro website at: https://vencuentro.org/results/ Distribution of the Catholic Population by Age Group and Race/Ethnicity The first chart and table are drawn from an original analysis carried out by the V Encuentro National Research Team, based on: a) two large surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2013 and 2014; b) annual surveys conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) from 2013 to 2016; c) a report prepared for the USCCB by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) in 2014; and d) U.S. Census Bureau data from Census 2000, the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS), and the March 2017 Current Population Survey (CPS). For the national data presented here, the CPS estimates were utilized, which allowed for the dis- tinction between second and third-generation Hispanics. For the diocesan and regional reports online, it was necessary to utilize the estimates based on the larger ACS dataset because they allow for finer geographic detail, at the cost of losing that distinction. Appendix E: Key Demographic, Social, and Religious Statistics