Census Bureau to Hold Webinar on Race/Ethnicity Coding Improvement Project

NOV. 5, 2024 - The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to hold a webinar November 19 to share the work underway on the Race/Ethnicity Coding Improvement Project and how the public can provide feedback on this work.

The Race/Ethnicity Coding Improvement Project is focused on how detailed race/ethnicity populations and American Indian or Alaska Native tribes and villages will be coded in the American Community Survey (ACS) and 2030 Census. Coding is the process that assigns a numeric code to each response provided by the public to the race/ethnicity question. The race/ethnicity code list shows how detailed responses to the race/ethnicity questions are coded and classified, which informs how data are tabulated in ACS and decennial census data products.

The Census Bureau classifies and tabulates race/ethnicity data following standards set by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (SPD 15), which were updated earlier this year.

For additional information, visit the Census Bureau's press kit, "Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Race and Ethnicity Standards," and the Office of Management and Budget's webpage about Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity.