Federal officials may revamp how Americans identify race, ethnicity on census and other forms |
Federal officials may revamp how Americans identify race, ethnicity on census and other forms
Pew Research Center
2016-10-04
D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor
Federal officials are moving ahead with the most important potential changes in two decades in how the government asks Americans about their racial and Hispanic identity. They include combining separate race and Hispanic questions into one and adding a new Middle East-North Africa category.
If approved by the Office of Management and Budget, the revisions would be made on the 2020 census questionnaire and other federal government surveys or forms. Federal statistics about race and Hispanic identity are used to enforce civil rights laws, assist in political redistricting and provide data for research that compares the status of different groups…
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