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The 2020 Census asked you whether your home is owned, rented, or occupied without payment or rent.
To help you choose the best option that applied to your home, we provided the following descriptions for the response options:
The 2020 Census asked you to record your name and the name of each person who lived with you as of April 1, 2020.
We understand you might have had questions when providing this information. Here were some guidelines for responding:
Please note: On the paper questionnaire, there were instructions about who to list as Person 1. After listing Person 1, you could list the names of the people in your home in any order.
The 2020 Census asked a series of questions about you and each person who lived with you. When responding, you were asked to record the Hispanic origin of each person living in your home on April 1, 2020.
We understand you might have had questions when providing this information. Here were some guidelines for responding:
The information below, listed in the same order as the questionnaire, was provided to help you respond:
The category “Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin" includes all individuals who identify with one or more nationalities or ethnic groups originating in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America, and other Spanish cultures. Examples of these groups include, but are not limited to, Mexican or Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, and Colombian. “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin” also includes groups such as Guatemalan, Honduran, Spaniard, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Venezuelan, etc. If a person is not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin, answer "No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin".
There are individual checkboxes for people who identify as:
We asked the question this way to comply with the federal government’s standards—provided by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget—for collecting data on race and Hispanic origin.
First, the question was based on how you identify. Second, the standards require us to collect and report data for a minimum of two ethnicities: “Hispanic or Latino” and “Not Hispanic or Latino.” The standards define “Hispanic or Latino” as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
If an individual did not provide a Hispanic origin response, their origin may have been assigned from previous census records or federal administrative records, if available, or was allocated using specific rules of precedence of household relationship. For example, if origin was missing for a natural-born child in the household, then either the origin of the householder, another natural-born child, or spouse of the householder was allocated.
If Hispanic origin could not be assigned from other sources and was not reported for anyone in the household, then the Hispanic origin of a householder in a previously processed household with the same race was allocated to the individual missing a response.
The 2020 Census asked a series of questions about you and each person who lived with you. When responding, you were asked to record the race of each person living in your home on April 1, 2020.
We understand you might have had questions about providing this information. Here were some of the guidelines for responding:
We asked the question this way to comply with the federal government’s standards—provided by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget—for collecting data on race and Hispanic origin.
First, the question was based on how you identify. Second, the race categories generally reflected social definitions in the U.S. and were not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. We recognize that the race categories include racial and national origins and sociocultural groups.
We made significant improvements to the question this decade to give everyone an opportunity to respond with their detailed racial identities. Providing this detail was an opportunity—not a requirement.
Based on research and positive feedback from communities over the past 10 years, people who identify as White or Black now have space to enter their detailed identities, such as the examples listed on the questionnaire.
In turn, this provides us the ability to produce detailed statistics for a variety of population groups in the United States, such as German, Lebanese, Mexican, Jamaican, Nigerian, Chinese, Navajo, Samoan, etc.
If an individual did not provide a race response, a response may have been assigned from previous census records or federal administrative records, if available, or their response may have been allocated using specific rules of precedence of household relationship. For example, if race was missing for a natural-born child in the household, then either the race or races of the householder, another natural-born child, or spouse of the householder were allocated.
If race could not be assigned from other sources and was not reported for anyone in the household, then the race or races of a householder in a previously processed household were allocated to the individual missing a response.
The information below, listed in the same order as the questionnaire, was provided to help you respond:
The 2020 Census asked you to record how each person in the home was related to you (or to one central figure).
We understand you might have had questions when providing this information. Here were some guidelines for responding:
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