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Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults
Asked to describe their race and ethnicity, most write a usable answer
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- Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults
- Six-in-ten Americans say they are very familiar with their origins. Black and Hispanic adults feel more connected to roots than White adults
- About half of U.S. adults say census questions reflect own identity very well
- Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than White adults to say origins central to their identity
- How do multiracial adults compare with other groups on questions about identity?
- The two different ways we asked about race and ethnicity
- Only about half of Hispanics had matched self-descriptions and responses to census questions
- Six-in-ten Americans said they were very familiar with their origins
- Americans were split on whether they felt connected to their family’s origins
- Most White adults didn’t see their origins as central to their identity
- The survey used the two-step race and ethnicity questions from the 2020 census to ask for respondents’ origins
- Majorities of White and Black respondents provided an origin
- Those with more education more likely to provide an origin
- Large majority of Black respondents identified ‘African American’ as origin
- Most adults’ self-described race and ethnicity match census answers
- How the 2020 census asked about Hispanic origin and race
- Asked to describe their race and ethnicity, most write a usable answer
- About half of U.S. adults say census questions reflect own identity very well
- For Hispanics, importance of origins slips across immigrant generations
- ‘Hispanic’ is most common race or ethnicity given by adults indicating Latin American or Spanish origins in open-ended identity question
- More than half of Hispanics say their race is White
- Weighting dimensions
- Unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling