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The standards from the White House's Office of Management & Budget (OMB)- revised for the first time since 1997- requires federal agencies to use one combined question for race and ethnicity ...
Under the new standards, scheduled to publish Friday, the government will collect race and ethnicity information using a single question and will include a new Middle Eastern and North African ...
In a 15-page publication released March 29, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued revisions to the agency's policies for federal data on race and ethnicity, last revised in ...
In 1997, the OMB issued a Federal Register notice regarding revisions to the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity. [8] The OMB developed race and ethnic standards in order to provide "consistent data on race and ethnicity throughout the federal government". The development of the data standards stem in large ...
Statistical Policy Directive (SPD) is a requirement by the Office of Management and Budget for Federal statistical agencies in "the design, collection, processing, editing, compilation, storage, analysis, release, and dissemination of statistical information".
On March 28, 2024, the Bureau announced the following modifications to questions on race and ethnicity: consolidate the race and ethnicity questions into one question, with Hispanic or Latino considered as a minimum category; add Middle Eastern or North African as a new minimum category; require the collection of additional details beyond the ...
The OMB said its research showed Afro Latino populations estimates were slightly higher with a combined race/ethnicity question that also provides detailed checkboxes and write-in fields.
During her tenure, she oversaw the revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity that was published in March 2024 after an inter-governmental and public commenting process that started in 2022.