For Hispanics, importance of origins slips across immigrant generations | Pew Research Center

May 13, 2021

Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults

For Hispanics, importance of origins slips across immigrant generations

For Hispanics, importance of origins slips across immigrant generations

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Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults
Six-in-ten Americans say they are very familiar with their origins. Black and Hispanic adults feel more connected to roots than White adults
About half of U.S. adults say census questions reflect own identity very well
Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than White adults to say origins central to their identity
How do multiracial adults compare with other groups on questions about identity?
The two different ways we asked about race and ethnicity
Only about half of Hispanics had matched self-descriptions and responses to census questions
For Hispanics, importance of origins slips across immigrant generations
‘Hispanic’ is most common race or ethnicity given by adults indicating Latin American or Spanish origins in open-ended identity question
More than half of Hispanics say their race is White
Weighting dimensions
Unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling