Which racial/ethnic categories are reported in Diversitydata?
Whenever possible, we created mutually-exclusive racial/ethnic categories, so that the same people were not counted twice. This means that we created, whenever possible, a Hispanic category, which includes people of any race that identified as Hispanic or Latino, as well as non-Hispanic racial categories (i.e. non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic Asian). Often, the Asian subgroup also includes Native-Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders.) At times, data availability made it impossible to create such mutually exclusive categories, especially for Blacks and Asians. In those cases, data is reported for all blacks and Asians (both Hispanic and non-Hispanic). Nationally, 2 percent or less of the ” black Alone” and “Asian alone” populations identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino, thought this does differ by metro area.
