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

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

OMB indicates that these revisions are intended to result in more accurate and useful race and ethnicity data across the federal government and ...

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

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 ...

Why We Must All Be Advocates When it Comes to Race Data

Nearly 50 years ago, the federal government established standards for racial data collection that still shape how we understand race. Federal ...

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

15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15). Responses to this Notice will be shared ...

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 ...

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

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, released March 29.

Updates to Decades-Old Federal Standards for Race, Ethnicity Data ...

These changes, informed by extensive public engagement, aim to modernize and standardize race and ethnicity data collections to improve uniformity and ...

Federal government implements more inclusive standards for ...

Federal government implements more inclusive standards for collecting race and ethnicity data · Middle Eastern and North Africans will no longer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Race/Ethnicity Categories in Federal Surveys Are Changing

Federal revisions to race categories will give people better options for identifying themselves and provide data users with a more accurate ...

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 ...

RWJF Comments on the Initial Proposals For Updating OMB's Race ...

Current minimum standards for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data place people under broad categories that mask the significant ...

OMB Updates Standards for Federal Data on Race, Ethnicity

“These revisions will enhance our ability to compare information and data across federal agencies, and also to understand how well federal ...

A Step Forward for Data Equity: New Federal Standards on Race ...

OMB plans to establish a standing Interagency Committee on Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards to pursue this research and update the ...

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 ...

OMB Revises Standards for Race and Ethnicity Data - FASEB

OMB Revises Standards for Race and Ethnicity Data · Using a single, combined question for race and ethnicity that instructs respondents to select ...

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.

Changes to race, ethnicity data collection will impact health

One of OMB's proposals for updating SPD 15 is combining questions about race and ethnicity into one, which many advocates say will boost response rates and ...