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Place of Birth, Citizenship, Year of Entry
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We ask questions about a person’s place of birth, citizenship, and year of entry into the United States to create data about citizens, noncitizens, and the foreign-born population.
Agencies and policymakers use our published statistics to set and evaluate immigration policies and laws, understand the experience of different immigrant groups, and enforce laws, policies, and regulations against discrimination based on national origin. These statistics also help tailor services to accommodate cultural differences.
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Your privacy concerns
We use your confidential survey answers to create statistics like those in the results below and in the full tables that contain all the data—no one is able to figure out your survey answers from the statistics we produce. The Census Bureau is legally bound to strict confidentiality requirements. Individual records are not shared with anyone, including federal agencies and law enforcement entities. By law, the Census Bureau cannot share respondents' answers with anyone—not the IRS, not the FBI, not the CIA, and not with any other government agency.
Questions as they appear on the form
We ask three questions that cover information on place of birth, citizenship, and year of entry to better understand the composition of our nation’s changing population.
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Results from these questions
We compile the results from these questions to provide communities with important statistics to help ensure equal opportunity, educate children, and understand change. You can see some of these published statistics here for the nation, states, and your community.
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Place of birth, citizenship, and date of entry data help communities:
Ensure Equal Opportunity
We ask about people in the community born in other countries in combination with information about housing, language spoken at home, employment, and education, to help government and communities enforce laws, regulations, and policies against discrimination based on national origin. For example, these data are used to support the enforcement responsibilities under the V****g Rights Act to investigate differences in v**er participation rates and to enforce other laws and policies regarding bilingual requirements.
Educate Children
We ask about individuals’ place of birth, citizenship, and year of entry in combination with other information, such as language spoken at home, to help schools understand the needs of their students and qualify for grants that help fund programs for those students (Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965). Statistics on how many foreign-born children depend on services through schools help school districts make staffing and funding decisions.
Understand Change
Researchers, advocacy groups, and policymakers are interested in knowing whether people of different races or countries of birth have the same opportunities in areas such as education, employment, and home ownership. These data may also help to identify communities with large refugee populations that qualify for financial assistance (Immigration Nationality Act).
Infographic: America's Foreign Born in the Last 50 Years.
Defending the Trump administrationâs controversial decision to add a question about US citizenship to the 2020 census form, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Tuesday, âItâs something that has been included in every census since 1965, with the exception of 2010, when it was removed.â
Thatâs wrong. The citizenship question was removed from the decennial census form in 1950 and hasnât been used since. It is asked on the annual American Community Survey, which reaches about 15 percent of US households, but Sanders didnât give any indication that she was referring to that survey. And the question wasnât removed from that survey in 2010.
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