1980: an overview

Census

Ukrainians wanted to be counted as such in the 1980 U.S. Census, the 20th decennial census of the U.S. population. They were able to do so since, for the first time in history, ethnic Americans had the opportunity to make their national background known on one (on the short form) or four (on the long form) questions of the census questionnaire. Ukrainian Americans were urged to reply Ukrainian to two questions on ancestry and one on language, other than English, spoken at home, as well as to give Ukraine as their place of birth if they were born on ethnographically Ukrainian lands.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 28, 1980, No. 31, Vol. LXXXVII

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