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title: "Census Report Explores How Hispanics Answer the Race Question"
description: "This posting links to a Fact Tank article about a new Census Bureau report that looks into how Hispanics answered the race question on the 2010 Census. Most Americans who chose \"some other race\" were Latino, and responses vary by country-of-origin group."
date: "2014-04-04"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/04/04/census-report-explores-how-hispanics-answer-the-race-question/"
---

# Census Report Explores How Hispanics Answer the Race Question

The Census Bureau has released a new report exploring how Hispanics responded to the question about their race in the 2010 Census. Most of those who chose "some other race" were Latino, but the share varied among country-of-origin groups. [Read more at Fact Tank](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/04/mexican-hispanic-and-latin-american-top-list-of-race-write-ins-on-the-2010-census/).