Census 2010 to Include Data on Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

August 04, 2009

The Washington Post
August 3, 2009
The Census Bureau will for the first time publicly release the number of marriages of same-sex couples reported in a decennial census, as it plans to release raw data about same-sex relationships in the 2010 headcount. The decision reverses a Bush-era policy that prohibited the release of the data. [Link]