Cognitive testing of racial and ethnic questions for the CPS supplement

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 8-12

  McKay, Ruth B ^a   De La Puente, Manuel ^b  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^b Bureau of the Census

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References (6)

1. The team consisted of: Adalberto Aguirre (University of California, Riverside); Ade Costa-Cash, Manuel de la Puente, and Eleanor Gerber (Bureau of the Census); Patricia Bell (Oklahoma State University); Lu Ann Moy (General Accounting Office); Ruth McKay (Bureau of Labor Statistics); Jorge Nakamoto (Aguirre International, Inc.); and Jackie Stanley (Department of Agriculture).
2. Panel 1 contained separate Hispanic origin and race questions with no multiracial category; panel 2 contained separate Hispanic origin and race questions with a multiracial category; panel 3 contained a combined Hispanic origin and race question, with "Hispanic" a category on the list of races, and no multiracial category; panel 4 contained a combined Hispanic origin and race question, with "Hispanic" a category on the list of races, that also included a multiracial category.
3. For more information on this and other cognitive methods, see Barbara H. Forsyth and Judith T. Lessler, "Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy," in Paul P. Biemer and others, eds., Measurement Errors in Surveys (New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991), pp. 393-418.
4. For a more complete discussion of the cognitive research findings, see: Ruth B. McKay and Manuel de la Puente, "Cognitive Research in Designing the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnicity," Proceedings of the Bureau of the Census' 1995 Annual Research Conference, Rosslyn, VA, pp. 435-45; Manuel de la Puente and Ruth B. McKay, "Developing And Testing Race and Ethnic Origin Questions for The Current Population Survey Supplement On Race And Ethnic Origin," Proceedings of the 1995 American Statistical Association Meetings, Orlando, FL, pp. 19-28; and Ruth B. McKay, L.L. Stinson, M. de la Puente, and B. A. Kojetin, "Interpreting the Findings of the Statistical Analysis of the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnicity," Proceedings of the Bureau of the Census' 1996 Annual Research Conference, Rosslyn, VA (In press).
5. For a more complete discussion of the cognitive research findings, see: Ruth B. McKay and Manuel de la Puente, "Cognitive Research in Designing the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnicity," Proceedings of the Bureau of the Census' 1995 Annual Research Conference, Rosslyn, VA, pp. 435-45; Manuel de la Puente and Ruth B. McKay, "Developing And Testing Race and Ethnic Origin Questions for The Current Population Survey Supplement On Race And Ethnic Origin," Proceedings of the 1995 American Statistical Association Meetings, Orlando, FL, pp. 19-28; and Ruth B. McKay, L.L. Stinson, M. de la Puente, and B. A. Kojetin, "Interpreting the Findings of the Statistical Analysis of the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnicity," Proceedings of the Bureau of the Census' 1996 Annual Research Conference, Rosslyn, VA (In press).
6. For a more complete discussion of the cognitive research findings, see: Ruth B. McKay and Manuel de la Puente, "Cognitive Research in Designing the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnicity," Proceedings of the Bureau of the Census' 1995 Annual Research Conference, Rosslyn, VA, pp. 435-45; Manuel de la Puente and Ruth B. McKay, "Developing And Testing Race and Ethnic Origin Questions for The Current Population Survey Supplement On Race And Ethnic Origin," Proceedings of the 1995 American Statistical Association Meetings, Orlando, FL, pp. 19-28; and Ruth B. McKay, L.L. Stinson, M. de la Puente, and B. A. Kojetin, "Interpreting the Findings of the Statistical Analysis of the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnicity," Proceedings of the Bureau of the Census' 1996 Annual Research Conference, Rosslyn, VA (In press).