{"id":38765,"date":"2014-12-09T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38765"},"modified":"2015-06-17T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:44:17","slug":"race-and-ethnicity-in-the-2020-census-improving-data-to-capture-a-multiethnic-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38765","title":{"rendered":"Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\/publications\/reports\/census-report-2014\/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-2020-census.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Leadership Conference Education Fund<\/a><br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\nNovember 2014<br \/>\n36 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\/publications\/reports\/census-report-2014\/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-2020-census.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\/publications\/reports\/census-report-2014\/Census-Report-COVER-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census\u201d is the culmination of The Leadership Conference Education Fund\u2019s year-long project to examine the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Census Bureau\u2019s<\/a> research and testing program from the perspective of civil rights stakeholders and to ensure that any revisions to the 2020 census race and ethnicity questions continue to yield data that support the advancement of fairness and equity in all facets of American life. The report \u2013 co-branded with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancingjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice<\/a>\u00a0(AAJC) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naleo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NALEO Educational Fund<\/a> \u2013 includes a set of recommendations for the Census Bureau and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Chapter I: Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data in the Census<\/li>\n<li>Chapter II: The Essential Role of Race and Ethnicity Statistics in the Quest for Civil Rights<\/li>\n<li>Chapter III: Revising the Census Race and Ethnicity Questions: The Civil Rights Perspective<\/li>\n<li>Chapter IV: Recommendations<\/li>\n<li>Endnotes<\/li>\n<li>Appendix I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Stakeholders emphasize, however, that census data and\u00a0school enrollment data are not always comparable with\u00a0respect to the categories used and the level and range\u00a0of detail collected, making it more difficult to evaluate\u00a0trends in education outcomes and their relationship to\u00a0broader community conditions, such as poverty, unemployment,\u00a0and access to health care, that can influence\u00a0performance in school. The Department of Education\u00a0requires educational institutions to collect race and ethnicity\u00a0data on students and staff, but individuals are not\u00a0required to provide those data (resulting in a category of\u00a0\u201cRace and Ethnicity unknown\u201d). The department only\u00a0updated its data collection guidelines in 2007\u201410 years\u00a0after OMB finalized the new standards for race and ethnicity\u00a0data\u2014for implementation in the 2010-11 school year. The updated Education Department categories do\u00a0not ask Hispanics to report a race; they also collapse\u00a0multiple race responses into one, unspecific category of\u00a0\u201cTwo or more races,\u201d instead of assigning multiracial\u00a0individuals to their respective race choices.65 The latter\u00a0practice is especially worrisome to civil rights data users,\u00a0given the growth in the multiracial and multiethnic\u00a0populations. The percentage of the population reporting\u00a0multiple races grew by nearly a third (32 percent) between\u00a02000 and 2010, compared to an overall 10 percent\u00a0growth in the U.S. population. Failure to capture multiple\u00a0race responses as part of specific race groups can\u00a0adversely affect the ability of educational institutions to\u00a0meet minority student enrollment thresholds under various\u00a0education programs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Other observations about current census race and ethnicity\u00a0data, for civil rights purposes, include concerns about\u00a0the accuracy of data on multiracial and multiethnic populations, especially Afro-Latinos; the need for more\u00a0detailed and accurate data on Americans of South Asian\u00a0origin and Native Hawaiians; and the need for expanded\u00a0data sets on industry, occupation, and employment status,\u00a0by race and ethnicity, including for American Indian\u00a0tribes, to assist in the enforcement of equal employment\u00a0opportunity laws. Employment experts generally believe\u00a0that a combined race and Hispanic origin question\u00a0would produce data of acceptable (if not higher) quality\u00a0and enhanced granularity for all race groups to support\u00a0their efforts. They emphasized the importance of\u00a0detailed, subgroup data to promote diversity and prevent\u00a0discrimination in the labor market, since many people\u00a0of color, and especially immigrants, are concentrated in\u00a0\u201cethnic enclaves.\u201d&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire report <a href=\"http:\/\/civilrightsdocs.info\/pdf\/reports\/Census-Report-2014-WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America The Leadership Conference Education Fund Washington, D.C. November 2014 36 pages \u201cRace and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census\u201d is the culmination of The Leadership Conference Education Fund\u2019s year-long project to examine the Census Bureau\u2019s research and testing program from the perspective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,681,20],"tags":[18654,18653,18652,18657,18651],"class_list":["post-38765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-media-archive","category-reports","category-usa","tag-aajc","tag-asian-americans-advancing-justice","tag-leadership-conference-education-fund","tag-naleo-educational-fund","tag-the-leadership-conference-education-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38765","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=38765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}