If respondents are allowed to mark more than one racial category, how will that response and reporting of race?
In the 1996 Census Survey, the Census Bureau tested revisions to the questionnaire that would allow multiple responses to the race question. There was no evidence that any of these experimental treatments had a negative effect on the final mail response rates. Also, we do no expect the instruction “mark one or more” to significantly affect reporting of race, because fewer than two percent of respondents in recent tests used this option.
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- If respondents are allowed to mark more than one racial category, how will that response and reporting of race?
