Health Affairs August 29, 2024
In March 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released much-anticipated revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15), which had last been updated in 1997. Building on recommendations from the OMB’s Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards and more than 20,000 public comments in response to initial proposals in 2023, the new standards combine questions on racial and ethnic identities and now require a separate Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) response category, among other updates. The standards also incorporate widely accepted best practices for data collection such as encouraging detailed response categories beyond these minimums, allowing individuals to opt out of...
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