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Article: Polish American Population Has Doubled Over the Last 60 Years: Now Sixth Largest National Ancestry in United States
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- Polish-American Journal
- Article date:
- June 30, 2002
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Pienkos, Donald
Polish-American Journal
06-30-2002
Since 1980, the United States Census Bureau has conducted a nationwide
survey of the ethnic ancestries of the American population in one-sixth of
all households around the country.
This is part of its effort to count the entire population living in the
country. (The census is required every ten years under out Constitution,
mainly to determine the proper representation of Americans in the U.S.
House of Representatives).
Findings from these massive surveys have proved helpful in offering a great
amount of information about the diverse and continually changing national
origins of the American people. This information was not previously
available from ...