{"id":60813,"date":"2021-05-24T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60813"},"modified":"2021-05-24T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:27:20","slug":"measuring-race-and-ancestry-in-the-age-of-genetic-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60813","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Race and Ancestry in the Age of Genetic Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Measuring Race and Ancestry in the Age of Genetic Testing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Demography<\/a>
\n2021-04-12
\n26 pages
\nDOI: 10.1215\/00703370-9142013<\/a><\/p>\n

Sasha Shen Johfre<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate
\nDepartment of Sociology
\nStanford University, Stanford, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Aliya Saperstein<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology; Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor in Human Biology
\nStanford University, Stanford, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Jill A. Hollenbach<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Neurology
\nWeill Institute for Neurosciences<\/em>
\nUniversity of California, San Francisco, California<\/em><\/p>\n

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Will the rise of genetic ancestry tests<\/a> (GATs) change how Americans respond to questions about race and ancestry on censuses and surveys? To provide an answer, we draw on a unique study of more than 100,000 U.S.<\/a> adults that inquired about respondents’ race, ancestry, and genealogical knowledge. We find that people in our sample who have taken a GAT, compared with those who have not, are more likely to self-identify as multiracial and are particularly likely to select three or more races. This difference in multiple-race reporting stems from three factors: (1) people who identify as multiracial are more likely to take GATs; (2) GAT takers are more likely to report multiple regions of ancestral origin; and (3) GAT takers more frequently translate reported ancestral diversity into multiracial self-identification. Our results imply that Americans will select three or more races at higher rates in future demographic data collection, with marked increases in multiple-race reporting among middle-aged adults. We also present experimental evidence that asking questions about ancestry before racial identification moderates some of these GAT-linked reporting differences. Demographers should consider how the meaning of U.S. race data may be changing as more Americans are exposed to information from GATs.<\/p>\n

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We find that people in our sample who have taken a GAT, compared with those who have not, are more likely to self-identify as multiracial and are particularly likely to select three or more races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,2039,8,394,20],"tags":[15994,2840,9187,31422,31419,31420,31421],"class_list":["post-60813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aliya-r-saperstein","tag-aliya-saperstein","tag-demography","tag-genetic-ancestry-tests","tag-jill-a-hollenbach","tag-jill-hollenbach","tag-sasha-shen-johfre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60813","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=60813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60814,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60813\/revisions\/60814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}