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The Census has been asking about citizenship on and off for nearly 200 years

US Supreme Court, at least temporarily, blocked the inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2020 decennial census. But while the question has been missing from the Census Bureau’s primary national survey since 1950, the agency has been asking the question in various ways since 1820.

UPDATE (July 2, 2019): The Census Bureau is moving forward with the 2020 survey by not including the question about citizenship.

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