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Census Bureau Race Categories. Census have changed from defined as someone who is black and at least one other race Race and ethnicity facts and information Race is defined as a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits. This along with Some other race was the other big innovation introduced in 2000 and it was a response in part to the fact that in the 1990 census half a million people disobeyed. Still on Friday the Census Bureaus head of the 2020 census Albert Fontenot announced the upcoming national head count will keep the same racial and ethnic categories used for the 2010 census. American Indian or Alaska Native.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. For the first time the category of Other was used to collect data on race during the 1910 Census enumeration. For our analyses we calculated the Hispanic or Latino population of any race as a category. Black or African American. This operation occurs with trained staff at the Census Bureaus National Processing Center NPC. Beginning in 2000 based on research conducted by the Census Bureau and new Office of Management and Budget guidelines Native Hawaiian Samoan and Guamanian became part of a new category.
We tabulated the responses based on standard categories.
In 2010 the Census Bureau estimates it overcounted people who checked off the White box for the race question and did not identify as Hispanic or Latino while it. OMB requires that race data be collectd for a minimum of five groups. White Black or African American American Indian or Alaska Native Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. This category includes people who indicate their race as American Indian or Alaska Native or report entries such as Navajo Blackfeet Inupiat Yupik or Central American Indian groups or South American Indian groups. Each of the race alone non-Hispanic or Latino groups as individual categories the terms Hispanic or Latino and Hispanic are used interchangeably in this story. Still on Friday the Census Bureaus head of the 2020 census Albert Fontenot announced the upcoming national head count will keep the same racial and ethnic categories used for the 2010 census.