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Us Census Ethnicity Categories. Update on the US. The United States Census Bureau adheres to the 1997 Office of Management and Budget standards on race and ethnicity. The 2000 Census officially recognized six racial categories including people of two or more races. Mexican Filipino Hindu and Korean The Hindu category would appear again in the 1940 census after which it was no longer a category.
Black Americans were coded as Negro the first time that term was used as a racial category in the census. The 2000 Census officially recognized six racial categories including people of two or more races. The Black or African American alone non-Hispanic population was third-largest at 122. Four color or race categories were introduced in 1930. As outlined in the planned Census 2020 question BlackAfrican American individuals for example will be asked to print their specific origin eg. For example colored became black with Negro and African American added later.
Mexican Filipino Hindu and Korean The Hindu category would appear again in the 1940 census after which it was no longer a category.
Update on the US. Census Bureaus Race and Ethnic Research for the 2020 Census by Nicholas A. Data from the 2015 National Content Test NCT the 2010 Census and American Community Survey ACS Ancestry data Because there were no write-in lines for the White and Black categories in the 2010 Census many White and Black groups did not receive unique codes in 2010 For the 2020 Census we have added many new White groups and Black. Census Bureau defines the race and ethnicity categories used for federal government purposes. Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. The White alone non-Hispanic population was the largest racial or ethnic group in the United States at 637.