#Census now enters race codes from the Hispanic origin question, so if you write in Indian on the Hispanic question, they change your race to American Indian. That's probably by the number of interracial couples doubled from 2019 to 2022. #demography
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/time-series/demo/ssc-house-characteristics/Figure2a2b.pdf
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2021/08/improvements-to-2020-census-race-hispanic-origin-question-designs.html
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@philipncohen
Is that good or bad? I have no idea of how useful the "race" category is...
@tobychev i don't know. Sudden dramatic changes make trend analysis, impossible which is inconvenient at best, but justifiable if you have a good reason