A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my eye recently. It appeared on the black-oriented TheRoot.com website under this intriguing headline: &#8… ...

Answers To Census' Race Question Changes Over Time Census figures show the Hispanic population in the United States now accounts for more than half of the nation's growth in the past decade. But ...

Kenneth Prewitt, who directed the Census Bureau during the 2000 Census, also has concerns about the way the government asks about race and ethnicity. The race question on the census form “does not ...

The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a person’s ancestry on its most comprehensive survey. The bureau says the ancestry query may duplicate a newly-revised … ...

The federal government periodically alters race and ethnicity questions to keep up with shifts in the social fabric of the nation. For example, "mulatto" was a Census category in 1920.

Possible 2020 census race/Hispanic question for online respondents, who would click to the next screen to choose more detailed sub-categories such as “Cuban” or “Chinese.” Credit: U.S. Census Bureau ...

The Census Bureau has scrapped a plan to overhaul how it asks about race and Hispanic ethnicity in the 2020 Census, after the Trump administration delayed making a decision on the matter in time ...

For the national head count, 2020 census forms will include new ways of asking about race and how people living together are related. They will not include the now-blocked citizenship question.

Starting in 2020, the Census Bureau has allowed respondents to write detailed information about their background for the race question. For instance, the race question now allows a respondent to ...