Measuring Hispanic Origin: Reflections on Hispanic Race Reporting

Sonya R. Porter and C. Matthew Snipp

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2018, vol. 677, issue 1, 140-152

Abstract: There are more than 50 million Hispanics in the United States, composing 16 percent of the population. Hispanics are also one of the fastest-growing race and ethnic groups. The American public often views and treats Hispanics as a racial group; yet 47 years after a Hispanic origin measure was added to the 1970 U.S. decennial census, and after numerous tests aimed at ameliorating racial measurement issues related to Hispanics, we continue to struggle with defining and measuring this population. In this article, we review literature about conceptual and measurement issues regarding Hispanic race reporting, evaluate public tabulations from one of the largest Census Bureau studies conducted in the 2010 Census to test strategies to improve race reporting for Hispanics, and discuss the opportunities and challenges of changing the race question on the decennial census to incorporate Hispanics.

Keywords: Hispanic origin; race; measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716218767384

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