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For students that I can’t (or don’t) resurvey, can I recode their race and ethnicity from the old categories to the new?

April 26, 2017Categories don’t Ethnicity race recode resurvey students

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For students that I can’t (or don’t) resurvey, can I recode their race and ethnicity from the old categories to the new?

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It is left to the discretion of the institution to determine strategies for handling the conversion of “old” race and ethnicity categories to the “new” categories, if desired (i.e., as an alternative or supplement to resurveying). The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) is making available suggestions and “good practices” information which will likely help with this issue. Please check their website at: http://airweb.