{"id":6350,"date":"2010-03-28T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2011-03-18T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T21:32:10","slug":"counting-multiracial-people-in-the-census-the-unfulfilled-wish-for-more-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6350","title":{"rendered":"Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/counting-multiracial-people-in-the-census-the-unfulfilled-wish-for-more-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\" target=\"_blank\">Racism Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010-03-26<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iur.rice.edu\/content.aspx?id=2140\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jenifer L. Bratter<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> Assistant Professor of\u00a0Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research<br \/>\n<em>Rice University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People who study the multiracial population are constantly confronted with the problem of small numbers to work with.\u00a0 A recent article I co-authored on the multiracial health (Bratter, Jenifer and <a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.rice.edu\/Gorman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bridget K. Gorman<\/a>. Forthcoming. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=12734\" target=\"_blank\">Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self Rated Health<\/a>.\u201d <em>Demography<\/em>)\u00a0 required combining seven years of data from a health survey (over 1.7 million cases) to get 20,000 mixed-race folks for analysis.\u00a0 The 2000 Census, with its \u201ccheck all that apply\u201d race question, remains the database with the largest number of cases and the 2010 Census will be the first to count race the same way as the preceding installment. While this may sound like a mundane detail, this will allow us to gauge growth, decline, or stability of this population and whether this will affect the population bases of single-race communities.\u00a0 If the sheer anticipation doesn\u2019t shake you to your core, perhaps you have forgotten the history of introducing this option into the Census&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/counting-multiracial-people-in-the-census-the-unfulfilled-wish-for-more-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/counting-multiracial-people-in-the-census-the-unfulfilled-wish-for-more-data\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data Racism Review 2010-03-26 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of\u00a0Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University People who study the multiracial population are constantly confronted with the problem of small numbers to work with.\u00a0 A recent article I co-authored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,26,394,20],"tags":[2670,215,344,2669],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-bridget-k-gorman","tag-jenifer-bratter","tag-jenifer-l-bratter","tag-racism-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","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=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}