Context: 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.

Question: The Census Bureau had gone from two categories to how many by the 1990s?
Answer: more than a dozen

Question: Why were there more immigrants in the US?
Answer: due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s

Question: How had the Census Bureau changed its collection of data?
Answer: allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity

Question: What is one of the many outcomes of the Census data?
Answer: federal assistance

Question: By 2002, what percent of African Americans had multiracial ancestries?
Answer: over 75%

Question: How many different ethnic categories were listed on the modern census?
Answer: By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census,

Question: Can people self identify as more than one ethnicity on the US census currently?
Answer: The Census Bureau changed its data collection by allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity

Question: About how many African American have multiracial ancestries
Answer: According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.

Question: Do some ethnic groups have concerns about census changes?
Answer: Some ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as

Question: How is some federal assistance allocated to certain groups?
Answer: federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data

Question: Twelve or more categories for race and ethnicity were in the Census by when?
Answer: 1990

Question: When did laws allow for more immigrants?
Answer: in the 1960s

Question: How many African Americans identify as multiracial on the Census of 2002?
Answer: over 75%

Question: What type of federal assistance depends on Census data?
Answer: assistance to historically underserved groups

Question: How many ethnic/racial categories were on the census in 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who had come to reside in the United States due to new immigration laws in the 1940s?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did the United States end the new immigration laws?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What percentage of white americans had multiracial ancestries?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What kind of federal assistance does not depend on census data?
Answer: Unanswerable