Census may change the way it asks Latinos to identify
Ethnicity, race, and labels are of course tricky things. There's a ton of crossover and not to mention the fact that most Latinos identify according to nationality.
- Luis Moreno
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Last August, the U.S. Census Bureau announced it had been experimenting with its questionnaires to create a better way of counting the people it asks to identify on census forms as being of "Hispanic, Latino or Spanish Origin."
This could involve creating a mutually exclusive group or a category that combines race and ethnicity on census forms for 2020. The process has picked up steam as the bureau gathers public comment. But it's still a challenge to categorize such a diverse group of Americans.
When the Pew Hispanic Center released a thought-provoking report last spring about the ways Latinos and/or Hispanics identify themselves, the resulting coverage sparked a national conversation about ethnic labels. The report pointed out that most survey respondents bucked pan-ethnic labels like "Latino" and "Hispanic," and preferred instead to identify by their families' countries of origin.
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