In yesterday's post, I looked at the Asian-White income gap. But it might not always be clear what numbers to look at because people can select more than one race on Census Bureau surveys. This article examined how people answer these questions.
Excerpts:
"since 2000, residents have been able to check off more than one race on the decennial census."
This can be confusing "Because people change their answers from one census to the next."
"Yet millions of people who identified as multiracial for the first time in 2000 reverted to a single race in 2010. At the same time, a nearly equal number switched from one race to more than one.
“At any one point in time, 2% to 3% of the U.S. reports as multiracial,”"
"6.1% of respondents, or 9.8 million out of about 162 million, changed their answers" from 2000 to 2010.
"In 2010-12 . . . More than 13 million people said they had ancestors of two different races, but only 7.9 million identified themselves as multiracial."
"With self-reporting, it’s possible that some people withhold information selectively. But it’s also possible that some are simply unaware of their heritage."
"Today, the survey includes five race categories: white; Black or African-American; American Indian or Alaskan Native; Asian or Pacific Islander; and, for everybody else, “some other race.”"
"the information has been used to monitor compliance with antidiscrimination laws, regulations and policies."
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