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Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask
14% of Adults Give Two or More Races for Themselves in at Least One Race-Selection Question
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- Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask
- Multiracial Share of U.S. Adults Varies Widely Across Different Measures of Race
- Method Used to Estimate the Size of the Multiracial Population in 2015 Survey
- Standard Two-Question Measure
- Census Alternative Questionnaire Experiment Measure
- AQE Results by Mode and Response Categories
- Census Alternative Questionnaire Experiment Measure, With Parents’, Grandparents’ Race/Origin
- Point Allocation Measure
- Incorrect Response and Nonresponse in Point Allocation Method
- Attitudinal Measure
- Many Who Allocate Points to More Than One Race Don’t Consider Themselves “Mixed Race”
- 14% of Adults Give Two or More Races for Themselves in at Least One Race-Selection Question
- Little Consistency in Reporting of Multiple Races Across Three Race-Selection Questions
- Multiracial Incidence by Subgroup for Different Race-Selection Questions
- Table A1. Detailed Race Responses, by Question Type
- Table A2. Selected Characteristics, by Question Type