generate questions: By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census, reflecting not only changing social ideas about ethnicity, but the wide variety of immigrants who had come to reside in the United States due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s. With a changing society, more citizens have begun to press for acknowledging multiracial ancestry. The Census Bureau changed its data collection by allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity. Some ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.
The Census Bureau had gone from two categories to how many by the 1990s? {sep_token} By 2002, what percent of African Americans had multiracial ancestries? {sep_token} Why were there more immigrants in the US? {sep_token} How had the Census Bureau changed its collection of data? {sep_token} What is one of the many outcomes of the Census data? {sep_token} How many different ethnic categories were listed on the modern census? {sep_token} Can people self identify as more than one ethnicity on the US census currently? {sep_token} About how many African American have multiracial ancestries {sep_token} Do some ethnic groups have concerns about census changes? {sep_token} How is some federal assistance allocated to certain groups? {sep_token} Twelve or more categories for race and ethnicity were in the Census by when? {sep_token} When did laws allow for more immigrants? {sep_token} How many African Americans identify as multiracial on the Census of 2002? {sep_token} What type of federal assistance depends on Census data? {sep_token}