Opinion: There’s a public health crisis lurking in our data: the Census option ‘some other race’
Overly broad Census categories force tens of millions of Americans to select “some other race.” That’s creating a public health crisis.
According to the 2020 Census, the second most common race in America, after white, is “Some other race,” an option chosen by an astonishing one out of seven people. The nationwide failure to accurately measure the variety of races and ethnicities that make up the U.S. population makes underrepresented groups invisible in public health data, resulting in policies informed by inadequate or misleading information.
One of the main drivers of this unfortunate categorization is the widespread practice of data aggregation.
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