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A. uses a form with biological racial categories.
B. found that people do not have any trouble selecting one racial category.
C. shows an increase of people choosing "some other race" on the census since 1980.
D. uses a form with racial categories based on hyperdescent.
E. uses the same racial categories as the categories used in the Canadian census.


Answer: C

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