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That's not the purpose of the census, though. That's a political and social concern, and people can debate the value of that data and who should collect it, but
by caymanjim 5y ago
That's not the purpose of the census, though. That's a political and social concern, and people can debate the value of that data and who should collect it, but it's not part of the Constitutional mandate to count the number of people.
- ironman1478 5y agohttps://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/census-constitution.html#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Constitution%20empowers%20the,Article%20I%2C%20Section%202).&text=The%20plan%20was%20to%20count,determine%20representation%20in%20the%20Congress https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/abo.... Unless I misunderstood your question and you meant to say that the race portion specifically is not.