It looks like the 2020 Census data recording sheets will be several times longer than they were in 2010 – and there will be an increased breakdown of place-of-ancestral-origin for many minorities living within the United States. The following teaser is just the first couple sentences from a very interesting article published in an October 14 edition of populyst.net.
Over 45 million Americans identify their dominant ancestry as German and 22,000 identify theirs as Marshallese, from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. But in the US Census proposed new form for 2020, both of these groups get their own box to check for the first time.
