Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This census acknowledged that "race categories include both racial and national-origin groups." The federal government of the United States has mandated that "in data collection and presentation, federal agencies are required to use a minimum of two ethnicities: "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino". [32]
Some Afro Latinos feel that combining the race and ethnicity question will reduce their numbers and representation in the data, though previous research by the U.S. Census Bureau did not find ...
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
Clearer questions pertaining to sexual orientation, gender identity, race and ethnicity are one step closer to appearing on the U.S. Census. Following new categorizing standards set by the federal ...
These efforts aim to improve federal race and ethnicity statistics and ensure data more accurately reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population,” the agency said.
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [128] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [129] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [130] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [131]
The stress associated with racism can negatively impact a person's physical and mental health [14] and has been shown to contribute to health problems such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, heart disease, skin rashes, and gastrointestinal problems. [16]
The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.