Census Racial Metadata: Categories Used for Different Racial Groups Across Countries and Time. Issue 1 (14th October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cheng, Siyao; Twidale, Michael
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 59:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 648
• Page End: 649
• Publication Date: 2022-10-14
• Subjects: census metadata -- ethnicity -- Race -- racism -- self‐identification; Information science -- Congresses; Information technology -- Congresses; Information science; Information technology; Conference papers and proceedings; 020
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-9231

Abstract

ABSTRACT: A national census enables a government to comprehend its population. Questions concerning race and ethnicity are often included in census forms. We examined the racial category options provided in 35 countries' historical census forms over multiple decadal censuses. Analysis of these metadata options can help in understanding the way that official measures of race are socially constructed and reconstructed over place and time according to changing circumstances.