Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

Quyen Dinh didn’t even remember that, in 2024, she was selected as one of 23 appointees to the Census 2030 Advisory Committee ...

A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone ...

As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it should tally people into new race and ethnicity groups, the agency has released new research reflecting how U.S. residents from different ...

In January, the Office of Management and Budget posted notice of proposed changes to the federal government’s standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity. On the past five censuses, ...

The most detailed race and ethnicity data to date from the 2020 census was released Thursday more than three years after the once-a-decade head count, which determines political power, the ...

Whitney Turner, an employee of the U.S. Census Bureau, holds an "I count" sign at a 2020 census advertising campaign event in Washington, D.C., in January 2020. (Sarah L. Voisin | The Washington Post ...

The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether race can continue to be used as a proxy for political identity in ...

As the preliminary 2020 census results continue to trickle out, one statistic may be surprising. The numbers are certain to show that the second-largest racial category in the United States is “other, ...

On Thursday the U.S. Census Bureau released the local level results of its decennial survey. Because these data are used to draw maps for the House of Representatives and state legislatures, the ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand how Americans think of their own racial and ethnic identities and how that maps onto the race and ethnicity questions that appeared on the ...

The 2026 midterm elections will be changed by the number of states joining the effort to change congressional districts in ...