As a follow-on to the Office of Management and Budget’s
October 1997 announcement of revised government-wide standards for the
collection of data on race and ethnicity, the Tabulation Working Group
of the Interagency Committee for the Review of Standards for Data on
Race and Ethnicity has recently issued a report, “
Draft
Provisional Guidance on the Implementation of the 1997 Standards for
the Collection of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity.”
This guidance, which has been developed with the involvement of many
Federal agencies, essentially was requested by those agencies and the
many users of data on race and ethnicity. The guidance focuses on three
areas: collecting data using the new standards, tabulating data collected
under the new standards, and building bridges to compare data collected
under the new and the old standards. Following a two month period for
discussion by stakeholders within and outside government, the Office
of Management and Budget expects to issue provisional guidance at the
end of April. OMB expects the guidance issued at that time will evolve
further as data from Census 2000 and other data collections employing
the new collection standards become available.
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