Census Racial Metadata: Categories Used for Different Racial Groups Across Countries and Time

Siyao Cheng; Michael Twidale

doi:10.1002/pra2.678

Census Racial Metadata: Categories Used for Different Racial Groups Across Countries and Time

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Abstract

A national census enables a government to comprehend its population. Questions concerning race and ethnicity are often included in census forms. We examined the racial category options provided in 35 countries' historical census forms over multiple decadal censuses. Analysis of these metadata options can help in understanding the way that official measures of race are socially constructed and reconstructed over place and time according to changing circumstances.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	648-649
Number of pages	2
Journal	Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Volume	59
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.678
State	Published - 2022

Keywords

census metadata
ethnicity
Race
racism
self-identification

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General Computer Science
Library and Information Sciences

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