With the goal of improving the quality and usefulness of Federal race and ethnicity data, earlier this year the Chief Statistician of the United States convened a new Federal Interagency Technical Working
Group. The Working Group is evaluating existing research and engaging with the public, scientific and
policy communities, and Federal agencies. They will develop recommendations for the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget on several topics, including whether there should be changes to the reporting
categories for race and ethnicity and to questions used to collect information on race and ethnicity. This PAA workshop will convene representatives of the Interagency Technical Working Group along with population researchers with expertise in the measurement and analysis of race and ethnicity. There will be presentations to provide an overview of the Working Group’s process and on key topics that the group considered. The first expected outcome of the Working Group process is a proposal to revise the guidelines for Federal race and ethnicity data. This process should be complete by the time of the PAA Annual Meeting in mid-April 2023, providing the opportunity for workshop participants to provide feedback to Working Group members on their proposed changes.

Outcomes

• Understand current and proposed new Federal standards for data on race and ethnicity

• Understand the process for revising these standards

• Engaging with Working Group members who are proposing updates to Federal data on race and
  ethnicity

Organizers

• Linda Jacobsen, Population Reference Bureau

• Katherine Wallman, former Chief Statistician of the United States

• Narayan Sastry, Professor, University of Michigan