Tag: AQE

  • Should “Latino” be a Race on the Census? National Institute for Latino Policy Guest Commentary 2014-10-26 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California Few questions cause as much existential angst among Latino intellectuals as this one. The Latino origin question was added to the Census in such a hurry back in 1970, that little…

  • Race Reporting Among Hispanics: 2010 United States Census Bureau Population Division Washington, D.C. 20233 Working Paper No.102 March 2014 Merarys Ríos Fabián Romero Roberto Ramírez Since the release of the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) report in August 2012, much has been written about the AQE results (Compton et al., 2012; Hill…

  • Some Critical Thoughts on the Census Bureau’s Proposals to Change the Race and Hispanic Questions National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-01-10 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico As a sociologist of racial, ethnic and gender stratification, I applaud the Census Bureau’s ongoing efforts to examine how we…

  • Results from the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment U.S. Census Bureau Technical Briefing 2012-08-08 62 pages What is the AQE? The 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) focused on improving the race and Hispanic origin questions by testing a number of different questionnaire design strategies… Overview of…