What New OMB Rules on Race and Ethnicity Mean for You

What New OMB Rules on Race and Ethnicity Mean for You - NCQA

What's new · Add Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) as a reporting category, separate and distinct from White. · Require the collection of ...

Updates to OMB's Race/Ethnicity Standards - U.S. Census Bureau

We are confident that the updated standards will improve data on race/ethnicity across U.S. Census Bureau programs, and that these new data will ...

Revisions to Federal Standards for Collecting and Reporting Data ...

Moving to a single combined race and ethnicity question. · Adding MENA as a new minimum category. · Requiring detailed collection of racial and ...

New Standards for Collecting and Presenting Race and Ethnicity Data

For the first time in over twenty-five years, in March, 2024 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a set of proposed revisions to ...

The OMB's New Rules for Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data

While the OMB will mandate federal agencies to complete and submit an Action Plan on Race and Ethnicity Data within 18 months of the Notice's ...

OMB Publishes Revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15

One of the primary goals of Directive No. 15 is to ensure consistent and comparable race and ethnicity data across the federal government.

OMB Releases New Standards for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity

The change should improve the collection of race data particularly for the Hispanic or Latino population by reducing the number of responses ...

OMB's 2024 Revisions to SPD No. 15 Are Final. What's Happening ...

The revisions to SPD 15 require the use of one combined question for race and ethnicity, and encourage respondents to select as many options as ...

OMB releases updated standards for federal data on race and ethnicity

While SPD 15 does not mandate race and ethnicity data collection by federal agencies, it requires federal agencies to adhere to standardized ...

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

What's New · Add Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) as a reporting category, separate and distinct from White. · Require the collection of ...

OMB Issues New Guidance on Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data

New OMB guidance requires federal agencies collect more detailed race and ethnicity data, including new category for Middle Eastern or North ...

Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity in Federal Data and ... - KFF

While the census and OMB standards have been the standard for measuring race and ethnicity in the U.S. government at the federal level, states, ...

Revisions to OMB's Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for ...

OMB Decisions. OMB accepts the recommendation to combine the separate questions on race and ethnicity into a single combined race and ethnicity ...

Explanation of Data Standards for Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Primary ...

As a result of the 1997 HHS data inclusion policy, the basic OMB standard is already included in most HHS data collection initiatives. The new ...

OMB Updates How it Classifies Race and Ethnicity - Orr & Reno

The changes, announced on March 28, 2024, establish a new racial-ethnic category and combine questions about race and ethnicity on federal forms.

New federal standards will help improve data on race and ethnicity

The OMB changes will greatly improve the quality of our profiles by allowing more people to specify their racial identity “up front,” giving us ...

New census MENA, Latino checkboxes approved by White House

Biden officials approved proposals for the U.S. census and federal surveys to change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity ...

Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity

The standards have been used in two decennial censuses and in surveys of the population, data collections necessary for meeting statutory requirements ...

White House Publishes Revisions to Federal Agency Race and ...

On March 28, 2024, the White House unveiled revisions to the federal statistical standards for race and ethnicity data collection for federal agencies.

About OMB's Interagency Technical Working Group on Race ...

All racial and ethnic categories should adhere to public law. All racial and ethnic categories, both established and potential, should be ...