Categories & Definitions reference lists

Guiding questions

1. Should we ask race, ethnicity, culture, and/or nationality?
2. What _questions_ does asking about this information _answer_
3. What are the concerns with including each?
4. What are the concerns with not including it?

Note

This isn’t comprehensive, but a starting point to think critically about how to ask this question.

Race & Ethnicity

• List of all US census questions (does not contain field answers)
• NIH Racial and Ethnic categories
• US State of Iowa’s Race Classifications
• Wikipedia’s list of “contemporary” ethnic groups
• US Census Bureau’s “ongoing research about race & ethnicity also related
• a review of the new question format
• United States Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
• Wikipedia about race/ethnicity on US Census
• Race & Ethnicity course notes
• CIA World Factbook: ethnic groups by country

Todo

• look at Directive 15.
• look at Canadian / European census items.