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Does the US Census Bureau count same-sex married couples as families?

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Yes, the US Census Bureau announced that beginning with the 2013 American Community Survey Report due out in September 2014, same-sex married couples will be treated as families, rather than as "unmarried partners" as they had been before that date.

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