Observing race and ethnicity through a new lens: an exploratory analysis of different approaches to measuring “street race”

Observing race and ethnicity through a new lens: an exploratory analysis of different approaches to measuring “street race”

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Author(s):
Gonzalez, Dulce, author
López, Nancy, (Of Urban Institute), author
Karpman, Michael, author
Furtado, Karishma, author
Kenney, Genevieve M., author
McDaniel, Marla, author
O'Brien, Claire, (Of Urban Institute), author
Contributor(s):
Health Policy Center (Urban Institute), issuing body.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, DC : Urban Institute, December 2022
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Ethnic and Racial Minorities -- psychology
Ethnic and Racial Minorities -- statistics & numerical data
Health Equity -- economics
Health Policy
Self Concept
Surveys and Questionnaires -- statistics & numerical data
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Survey questions about race and ethnicity can shed light on how experiences differ across groups and ultimately help policymakers and stakeholders address inequities in health and other outcomes. But such questions often focus only on self-identified race and ethnicity and lump together diverse populations, masking substantial differences within groups and yielding results with insufficient nuance to appropriately understand and address inequities. In this brief, we explore what we can learn by measuring race and ethnicity in alternative ways on surveys and what we miss by focusing only on one set of measures of race and ethnicity. We assess nonelderly adults’ perceptions of how others see their race based on their physical appearance (henceforth “street race”) and how responses to questions about street race vary depending on the response options given. To do so, we analyze data from the December 2021 round of the Urban Institute’s Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey (WBNS), a nationally representative, internet-based survey of adults ages 18 to 64.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (21 pages))
NLM Unique ID:
9918591682606676 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918591682606676