Census officials defend the method that led to an increase in the count of multiracial people
The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an increase in the count of multiracial people in the United States, defending its method against arguments that the jump was mostly a statistical illusion. The United States’ largest statistical agency said in a statement this week to The Associated Press that millions more people reported multiple responses to the race question in 2020 than they did in 2010. “The 2020 Census race and ethnicity results reveal the complex way people identify themselves,” the Census Bureau said. The Census Bureau’s statement was made in response to a paper published last month by two Princeton University sociologists which argued that the 276% increase from 2010 to 2020 in people classified as multiracial was largely due to a change in how people were classified by census officials rather than strong shifts in racial or ethnic identity or major growth.
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