Abstract #301008

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301008
Activity Number: 327
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301008
Title: Comparing Responses to the Race Question Asked Two Different Ways
Author(s): Barbara Lepidus Carlson*+
Companies: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Address: PO Box 2393, Princeton, NJ, 08543-2393,
Keywords: survey ; race ; Community Tracking Study ; Directive 15
Abstract:

In preparation for the 2000 decennial Census, the government developed new guidelines for asking about race in federally sponsored surveys. In addition to separating Asians and Pacific Islanders into two categories, the main change was to allow for more than one race category to be given as a response. Although not a federally sponsored survey, the Community Tracking Study (CTS) Household Survey (sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) uses federal data sources as benchmarks when post-stratifying its weights. In the first three rounds of data collection (1996-97, 1998-99, 2000-01), we asked about the race of respondents, allowing for only one race category to be entered. Because federal benchmark surveys, such as the Current Population Survey March 2003 Supplement and the 2000 Census, will have asked about race following the new OMB guidelines, the CTS race question was revised accordingly for round four (2003). More than half of the CTS Household Survey round four sample will have also responded in round three. This paper compares the responses of people who were in both rounds to see how the new format of the race question affected their responses to that question.

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