Sentence examples for allowed respondents from inspiring English sources

For the first time, the most recent census allowed respondents to check off more than one box in that category.

By contrast, when the United States census in 2000 first allowed respondents to tick as many racial boxes as they wanted, only 2.4percenttickeded more than one.

In the 2011 census that number swelled to more than 800,000 (though that census allowed respondents to claim a double national-ethnic identity).

Because the survey has allowed respondents to identify themselves ethnically, Mr. David and others said, it will be problematic as a basis for developing policy, for getting an accurate count, for defining the community.

The 2000 census allowed respondents for the first time to choose more than one race in identifying themselves, a change that produced a wide array of possible racial classifications.

In one study, pictures of super-cute animals generated agitated responses like "It's so fluffy I want to die!" Another study allowed respondents to pop bubble wrap as they looked at cute photos.

Although the 2000 census allowed respondents, for the first time, to choose more than one race in identifying themselves, the change did not provide a way for Arab Americans to distinguish themselves, because Americans of Arab ancestry -- whether Lebanese, Moroccan, Yemeni, Palestinian or any Arabic-speaking group -- are considered white and are counted only by race, not ethnicity.

And the 2000 census for the first time allowed respondents to choose more than one race in identifying themselves, so that the number of Americans who declared themselves black "in combination with one or more other races" is now 37.7 million -- slightly higher than the overall figure for Latinos.

We allowed respondents to express a range of support for different barriers using an ordinal scale.

(Once again, we allowed respondents to choose more than one option).

The survey included multiple choice, multiple select, and free response questions that allowed respondents to describe their implementation.