Updates to OMB's Race/Ethnicity Standards

The 2024 Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 - SPD 15

15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15), the first since 1997. These revisions ...

Proposed Changes to Federal Standards for Collecting Race and ...

Revisions to OMB Directive No. 15 · Using a single, combined question for the collection of race and ethnicity information · Including “Middle ...

OMB Revises Standards of Race and Ethnicity Data – FABBS

Collect Race and Ethnicity Information Using One Combined Question (rather than two, separate questions). · Add Middle Eastern or North African ...

LWVUS Comments on OMB Race and Ethnicity Data Standards

The League submitted comments to the Management and Budget Office (OMB) regarding its proposed updates to the federal government's race and ...

Race and Ethnicity Updates Present Opportunities — and Caveats

For the first time in a quarter century, the federal government recently proposed new data collection standards. On January 27, 2023, the OMB ...

OMB Publishes Revisions to Race and Ethnicity Standards for ...

On March 28, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the updated standards for Statistical Policy Direction No.

What the New OMB Rules and Race and Ethnicity Mean for You

NCQA is updating our programs to match the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) new rules for collecting data on race and ethnicity, ...

March 2024 Updates to OMB's Race and Ethnicity Standards - MICHR

This resource is a distillation of The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)'s Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, ...

Tell the federal government to improve its race and ethnicity data ...

The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) race and ethnicity data standards, which set forth the minimum categories that federal agencies must use when they ...

White House Announces Revised Federal Race and Ethnicity ...

White House Announces Revised Federal Race and Ethnicity Federal Data Standards · American Indian or Alaska Native · Asian · Black or African ...

New Government Proposals to Classify Us All by Race and Ethnicity

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has a new proposal to increase the number of racial and ethnic groups about which it collects data.

Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data ...

These standards shall be used for all Federal administrative reporting or record keeping requirements that include data on race and ethnicity. Agencies that ...

Changes to race, ethnicity data collection will impact health

Currently, SPD 15 requires ethnicity be collected first and separately, with a question asking if a person is Hispanic or Latino. But according to the OMB ...

OMB Releases Updated Statistical Policy Directive on Federal Data ...

15, which governs the standards for collecting, maintaining, and presenting federal data on race and ethnicity. These revisions represent a ...

Why updating OMB race and ethnicity data standards matters for ...

For community health planners aiming to advance health equity, access to credible data is key to identifying populations placed at increased ...

OMB Revises Federal Data Standards for Race and Ethnicity

Released on March 28, these revisions include significant changes to questions concerning race and ethnicity, such as the addition of Middle ...

Update on the OMB Proposals After Court Rulings

OMB has developed a number of race and ethnicity categories to ensure that data on race and ethnicity is collected and used in a consistent ...

Biden administration finalizes first demographics data standards ...

Additionally, OMB is updating the actual wording of questions on race and ethnicity to better encourage respondents to select multiple ...

New OMB race/ethnicity categories - Election Law Blog

Justin here. This is a really big deal: the federal government's got new standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity.

Initial Proposals for Updating OMB's Race and Ethnicity Statistical ...

With the extension provided by this notice, comments on the “Initial Proposals for Updating OMB's Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards,” 88 FR 5375, must be ...