The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates
The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.100086897
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发表时间：
2000-05-23
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Morning, AJ
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作者：
Goldstein, JR;Morning, AJ
本文介绍了国家估计的人口可能会认同一个以上的种族在2000年人口普查的结果，一个新的联邦政策，允许多个种族识别。大量基于种族的公共政策--包括平权行动和《选举权法》的选区重划条款--可能会受到大约800万至1800万人从传统的单一种族统计群体中转移出来的影响。根据1990年人口普查的祖先数据和1995年当前人口调查的实验调查结果，新的分类程序导致的单一种族人口的下降可能比美国人口普查中的净少数更大，这是关于使用人口普查抽样的争议的中心。我们估计，3.1-6.6%的美国人口可能会标记多个种族。我们的研究结果大大高于以前的研究所建议的，并对政府和研究人员编码，报告和使用多响应种族数据产生影响。种族分类的变化可能会给基于种族的公共政策的实施带来新的难题，这些政策近年来受到越来越多的批评。
This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in the 2000 census as a result of a new federal policy allowing multiple racial identification. A large number of race-based public policies-including affirmative action and the redistricting provisions of the Voting Rights Act-may be affected by the shift of some 8-18 million people out of traditional single-race statistical groups. The declines in single-race populations resulting from the new classification procedure are likely to be greater in magnitude than the net undercount in the U.S. census at the center of the controversy over using census sampling, Based on ancestry data in the 1990 census and experimental survey results from the 1995 Current Population Survey, we estimate that 3.1-6.6% of the U.S. population is likely to mark multiple races. Our results are substantially higher than those suggested by previous research and have implications for the coding, reporting, and use of multiple response racial data by government and researchers. The change in racial classification may pose new conundrums for the implementation of race-based public policies, which have faced increasing criticism in recent years.