The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published a set of updates to Statistical Policy Directive 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. These updates will improve the quality and usefulness of the race and ethnicity data that agencies across the federal government collect, publish, and use to evaluate equitable program delivery and outcomes, monitor and enforce civil rights laws, and describe the demographic makeup of the United States and report trends.??
The updates closely follow the recommendations of an Interagency Technical Working Group convened last year by Dr. Karin Orvis, Chief Statistician of the United States, who detailed the changes in a blog post. The updated standards can be found in the Federal Register.?
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Kevin M. Scott, PhD, is the acting director.
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