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Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms 9-1-1 call takers Adoptive parents Afrikaans speakers USE Public safety dispatchers [social] [language] 9-1-1 dispatchers BT Parents UF Afrikander speakers USE Public safety dispatchers Adults Cape Dutch speakers 9-1-1 operators [age] Afrikander speakers USE Public safety dispatchers UF Grown-ups USE Afrikaans speakers 911 call takers Grownups Afro-Americans USE Public safety dispatchers NT Men USE African Americans 911 dispatchers Middle-aged people Aged people USE Public safety dispatchers Older people USE Older people 911 operators Women Agents, Authors' USE Public safety dispatchers Young adults USE Literary agents A.M.E. Church members Adventists Agents, Literary USE African Methodist Episcopal Church members [religion] USE Literary agents Abbots BT Christians Aging people [occupation/field of activity] NT Seventh-Day Adventists USE Older people BT Monks Advocates (Lawyers) Ahniyvwiya (North American people) Abusers, Drug USE Lawyers USE Cherokee (North American people) USE Drug abusers Aeronautical historians Ahvenanmaa Islanders Abyssinian speakers USE Aviation historians USE Ålanders USE Amharic speakers Afghan Americans AIDS patients Abyssinians (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church [ethnic/cultural] [medical, psychological, and disability] members) UF Americans, Afghan UF Acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients USE Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Afghans (Afghanistan) Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients members [national/regional] People living with AIDS Academic librarians Residents of Afghanistan. People living with HIV/AIDS [occupation/field of activity] BT Asians People with AIDS UF College librarians Afghans (Asian people) People with HIV/AIDS Community college librarians USE Pashtuns (Asian people) PLWAs (People living with AIDS) University librarians African Americans PLWHAs (People living with HIV/AIDS) BT Librarians [ethnic/cultural] PWAs (People with AIDS) Academicians UF Afro-Americans BT HIV-positive people USE University and college faculty members Americans, African Air hostesses Academics (University and college faculty members) Americans, Afro- USE Flight attendants USE University and college faculty members RT Blacks Air pilots Accountants African Methodist Episcopal Church members [occupation/field of activity] [occupation/field of activity] [religion] UF Airline pilots UF Certified public accountants UF A.M.E. Church members Airplane pilots Chartered accountants AME Church members Aviators Public accountants BT Methodists Pilots, Airplane Acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients Africans NT Glider pilots USE AIDS patients [national/regional] Military air pilots Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients NT Algerians Air stewardesses USE AIDS patients Angolans USE Flight attendants Activists Basotho Air stewards [social] Batswana USE Flight attendants Actors Beninese Airline hostesses [occupation/field of activity] Burkinabe USE Flight attendants UF Actresses Burundians Airline pilots Impersonators (Actors) Cameroonians USE Air pilots Mummers (Actors) Central Africans (Central African Republic) Airline stewardesses Play actors Chadians USE Flight attendants Players (Actors) Comorans Airline stewards Stage actors Congolese (Brazzaville) USE Flight attendants Thespians Congolese (Democratic Republic) Airplane pilots Thesps Djiboutians USE Air pilots Troupers (Actors) Egyptians al-'Arabiyya speakers BT Artists Equatorial Guineans USE Arabic speakers Actresses Eritreans al-Fusha speakers USE Actors Gabonese USE Arabic speakers Addicts Gambians Alabamans [social] Ghanaians USE Alabamians NT Alcoholics Guineans Alabamians Drug addicts Ivoirians [national/regional] Recovering addicts Kenyans UF Alabamans Adjudicators (Administrative law judges) Liberians BT Americans USE Administrative law judges Madagascans Åland Islanders Administrative assistants Mahorais USE Ålanders [occupation/field of activity] Malawians Ålanders People employed to perform administrative duties. Malians [national/regional] For people who manage correspondence and routine Moroccans UF Ahvenanmaa Islanders work for a superior see Secretaries. Mozambicans Åland Islanders Administrative law judges Nigerians BT Finns [occupation/field of activity] Nigeriens Alaskans UF Adjudicators (Administrative law judges) Réunionese [national/regional] Examiners, Trial Rwandans BT Americans Examiners, Hearing Senegalese Albanaigh Uladh Hearing examiners Seychellois USE Ulster Scots Hearing officers Sierra Leoneans Albanian speakers Judges, Administrative law Somalis [language] Officers, Hearing South Africans UF Shqip speakers Trial examiners South Sudanese Shqipëri speakers BT Judges Southern Africans Albanians Administrators, University and college Sub-Saharan Africans [national/regional] USE University and college administrators Sudanese UF Shqiptarët Adolescents Tanzanians BT Europeans USE Teenagers Togolese Albertains Adopted people Tunisians USE Albertans USE Adoptees Ugandans Albertans Adoptees Zambians [national/regional] [social] Zimbabweans UF Albertains UF Adopted people BT Canadians DG-1 BT Canadians Alcoholics Easterners (United States) Americans, German [medical, psychological, and disability] Floridians USE German Americans UF Drunkards Georgians (State of Georgia) Americans, Greek Drunks Guamanians USE Greek Americans Inebriates Hawaii residents Americans, Haitian BT Addicts Idahoans USE Haitian Americans NT Recovering alcoholics Illinoisians Americans, Hispanic Alcoholics, Parents of Indianans USE Hispanic Americans USE Parents of alcoholics Iowans Americans, Hmong Alealum speakers Kansans USE Hmong Americans USE Malayalam speakers Kentuckians Americans, Iranian Algerians Louisianians USE Iranian Americans [national/regional] Mainers Americans, Irish UF Algériens Marylanders USE Irish Americans BT Africans Michiganders Americans, Italian Algériens Midwesterners USE Italian Americans USE Algerians Minnesotans Americans, Japanese Aliens Mississippians USE Japanese Americans [social] Missourians Americans, Korean People who are not citizens of the country in which Montanans USE Korean Americans they reside. For foreign-born people who enter a Nebraskans Americans, Latino country intending to become permanent residents or citizens see Immigrants. Nevadans USE Hispanic Americans UF Foreigners New Englanders Americans, Lebanese Allergists New Hampshirites USE Lebanese Americans [occupation/field of activity] New Jerseyans Americans, Mexican UF Allergologists New Mexicans USE Mexican Americans Allergy specialists New Yorkers (New York State) Americans, Norwegian BT Physicians North Carolinians USE Norwegian Americans Allergologists North Dakotans Americans, Pacific Islander USE Allergists Northern Marianans USE Pacific Islander Americans Allergy specialists Northerners (United States) Americans, Polish USE Allergists Ohioans USE Polish Americans Allied health personnel Oklahomans Americans, Portuguese [occupation/field of activity] Oregonians USE Portuguese Americans UF Paramedical personnel Ozarkers Americans, Scots BT Medical personnel Pacific Northwesterners USE Scottish Americans NT Dental hygienists Pennsylvanians Americans, Scottish Physical therapists Puerto Ricans USE Scottish Americans Allopathic doctors Rhode Islanders Americans, Slovak USE Physicians South Carolinians USE Slovak Americans Alto saxophonists South Dakotans Americans, Slovene USE Saxophonists Southerners (United States) USE Slovenian Americans Alzheimer's patients Tennesseans Americans, Slovenian [medical, psychological, and disability] Texans USE Slovenian Americans BT Patients Utahns Americans, South Asian Alzheimer's patients' families Vermonters USE South Asian Americans [social] Virgin Islanders Americans, Vietnamese BT Families Virginians USE Vietnamese Americans Amarigna speakers Washingtonians (District of Columbia) Americans, West Indian USE Amharic speakers Washingtonians (Washington State) USE West Indian Americans Amarinya speakers West Virginians Amhara speakers USE Amharic speakers Westerners (United States) USE Amharic speakers Ambassadors Wisconsinites Amharic speakers [occupation/field of activity] Wyomingites [language] UF Commissioners, High (Ambassadors) Americans, Afghan UF Abyssinian speakers High commissioners (Ambassadors) USE Afghan Americans Amarigna speakers Ministers (Ambassadors) Americans, African Amarinya speakers BT Diplomats USE African Americans Amhara speakers Ambiguous genitalia, People with Americans, Afro- Ethiopian speakers USE Intersex people USE African Americans Amphibian biologists Ambulance dispatchers Americans, Antiguan USE Herpetologists USE Public safety dispatchers USE Antiguan Americans Anaesthesiologists AME Church members Americans, Arab USE Anesthesiologists USE African Methodist Episcopal Church members USE Arab Americans Analysts, Economic American Baptists Americans, Armenian USE Economists [religion] USE Armenian Americans Anatolian speakers Members of the American Baptist Association. Americans, Asian USE Turkish speakers USE Asian Americans Andhra speakers BT Baptists Americans, Bangladeshi USE Telugu speakers American Samoans USE Bangladeshi Americans Andorrans [national/regional] Americans, Canadian [national/regional] BT Americans USE Canadian Americans BT Europeans Pacific Islanders Americans, Caribbean Anesthesiologists American Sign Language users USE Caribbean Americans [occupation/field of activity] [language] Americans, Chinese UF Anaesthesiologists UF ASL users USE Chinese Americans Anesthetists Americans Americans, Cuban BT Physicians [national/regional] USE Cuban Americans
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