For the first time in 27 years, the US Census Bureau announced it would make a major change to the "race" and "ethnicity" ...
The U.S. census will make a change for the first time in 27 years regarding race and ethnicity in its data collection. One updated standard includes adding a Middle Eastern or North African American ...
Written in bland and unassuming language, newly released policy changes to how the U.S. government and Census categorizes ...
Advocacy groups say better data is key to helping communities identify needs and secure resources in such areas as health, ...
The recommendations include using one combined question for race and ethnicity identity with the option for respondents to ...
The proposal could change how race and ethnicity are measured across the country, from statewide and local records on police violence to health disparity data. But for many people, it’s much more ...
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the ...
Arab Americans across the U.S. have been fighting to get MENA included for data collection on federal forms for decades.
As a Puerto Rican, I refuse to mark white on the census. But adding a racial box for Latinos discounts our very different ...
Increased information transfer from the IRS would improve the quality of data at the Census Bureau and expand opportunities ...
The government soon will view Latino as a race, not an ethnicity. Same for Middle Eastern and North African and South Asian.
In short: The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has decided against collecting ethnicity data in the 2026 census after ...