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Reading Response #17: Ch. 10 "Where are we exactly?" - Coggle…
Reading Response #17: Ch. 10 "Where are we exactly?"
to propose changes to the census you need to know who is in charge and has influence over the census
key players here are OMB and the Census Bureau
Congress and the Supreme Court are not going to change the questions on the census
it is important to recognize that census data comes from multiple sources outside of the census that happens each decade
there were the decennial questions until 1960
long and short versions of the census were adapted
in 2000, a new technique was used to collect data similar to the decennial questions ... called the American Community Survey
2010 decennial questions were about Hispanic ethnicity
the word ethnicity was not used
following this question, respondants were asked to choose a race
people who chose the option of "some other race" are often sorted into racial categories by the Census Bureau
"census race question is not based on a coherent defintion of race, and that it mixes categories based on ancestry or national origin" pg. 176
some questions that were not a part of the decennial questions are asked on the ACS
there is an ancestry & ethnic origin question
"ancestry generally conveys a historical or geograohic context, while the word ethnicity indicates self-percieved notion of group membership" pg. 177
there are huge discrepancies between responses depending on which terms are used when a question is asked
"race, ancestry, ethnicity, and national origin are statistically mixed up in ways impossible to disentangle, and, deoending on the term used, provide very different population statistics" pg.178
Prewitt is recommending the removal of the ethnicity question
the census is supposed to count the population members once and correctly
"elimination of contradictory statistics... there are discrepancies between the race counts produced in the decennial census and the ACS" pg. 180
for personal privacy individual data are scrambled by the Census Bureau
this is good for personal protection, but intentionally creates errors