{"id":36071,"date":"2014-03-20T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T12:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36071"},"modified":"2014-03-20T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:46:08","slug":"u-s-census-looking-at-big-changes-in-how-it-asks-about-race-and-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36071","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/03\/14\/u-s-census-looking-at-big-changes-in-how-it-asks-about-race-and-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\n2014-03-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/contact-form\/#Jens-Manuel-Krogstad\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jens Manuel Krogstad<\/strong><\/a>, Writer\/Editor at the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Hispanic Trends Project<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/dvera-cohn\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>D\u2019Vera Cohn<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Social &amp; Demographic Trends Project<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">The Census Bureau<\/a> has embarked on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/2010census\/news\/press-kits\/aqe\/aqe.html\">years-long research project<\/a> intended to improve the accuracy and reliability of its race and ethnicity data. A problem is that a growing percentage of Americans don\u2019t select a race category provided on the form: As many as 6.2% of census respondents selected only \u201csome other race\u201d in the 2010 census, the vast majority of whom were Hispanic.<\/p>\n<p>Six percent may seem small, but for an agency trying to capture the entire U.S. population (nearly 309 million in 2010) every 10 years, that number results in millions of people unaccounted for. This pattern of response led to the bureau\u2019s \u201cmost comprehensive effort in history to study race and ethnic categories,\u201d according to Census officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/bios\/nicholas_jones_bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/bios\/roberto_ramirez_bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto Ramirez<\/a>. <b>\u201c<\/b>Increasingly, Americans are saying they cannot find themselves\u201d on census forms, Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Many communities, including Hispanics, Arabs and people of mixed race, have said they\u2019re unsure of how to identify themselves on census forms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/03\/14\/u-s-census-looking-at-big-changes-in-how-it-asks-about-race-and-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity Pew Research Center 2014-03-14 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer\/Editor at the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Hispanic Trends Project D\u2019Vera Cohn, Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Social &amp; Demographic Trends Project The Census Bureau has embarked on a years-long research project intended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,20],"tags":[5744,3122,5746],"class_list":["post-36071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-nicholas-jones","tag-pew-research-center","tag-roberto-ramirez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}