Our Comment to the Census Bureau's Race and Ethnicity Code List
This past Tuesday, we submitted detailed recommendations to improve the Census Bureau’s race and ethnicity code list, drawing on years of experience with Census and ACS data. We believe that it is important for people to be accurately represented in the data, especially when it comes to data on their racial and ethnic identities. Our team identified several areas for improvement that, if addressed, should make a real difference in how Connecticut’s diverse communities are represented.
To learn more about the Census Bureau's Race and Ethnicity Code List and some of the reasoning behind our recommendations, check out our blog post from January's Equity in Data Community of Practice. Our Director of Research, Cynthia Wilner, shared detailed information about the Bureau's coding process and the ways people get misrepresented in data under the current code list structure.