United States Census, 1980
Overview
United States Census
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, conducted by the Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau
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, determined the resident population of the United States
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to be 226,545,805, an increase of 11.4 percent over the 203,184,772 persons enumerated
Enumeration
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during the 1970 Census.
The 1980 census collected the following information from all respondents:
- address
- name
- household relationship
- sex
- race
- age
- marital status
- whether of Spanish/Hispanic origin or descent
It was the first census not to ask for the name of the "head of household."
Approximately 16 percent of households received a "long form" of the 1980 census, which contained over 100 questions.
