(ROLLCALL) — The Commerce Department has agreed to a request from the Justice Department to include a citizenship status question on the 2020 Census.
Commerce made the announcement late Monday, saying that the question would line up with the language used the American Community Survey.
“Citizenship questions have also been included on prior decennial censuses. Between 1820 and 1950, almost every decennial census asked a question on citizenship in some form,” the Commerce Department said in its announcement.
