The first time participants complete a survey in a Class, they are asked, “With what group or groups do you identify? Please select any boxes that apply.” and can choose to identify with one or more of 21 different race-ethnicity groups.
However, results in reports are not broken out by those fine-grained categories because that level of disaggregation would make it impossible to maintain the confidentiality of participants’ responses. The table below explains all the race-ethnicity categories as they appear in reports and which groups they include from the survey.
Race-Ethnicity Category in Reports | Response Options in the Survey |
American Indian or Alaskan Native (AIAN) | |
Asian / Asian-American | East Asian (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese) South Asian (e.g., Indian, Pakistani, Nepali, Sri Lankan) Southeast Asian (e.g., Burmese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese) Other Asian / Asian-American
|
Hispanic / Latino(a) / Latinx | |
Black / African-American | |
European / European-American / White | |
Middle Eastern / North African (MENA) | Middle Eastern North African (e.g., Algerian, Egyptian, Libyan, Moroccan, Sudanese, Tunisian)
|
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) | |
Multiracial | Participants who identify equally with multiple races/ethnicities |
Other Groups | Participants who identify with a race/ethnicity that was not listed |
Small Groups | A combination of participants with less than 5 participants in their group |
Skipped Question | Participants who marked “prefer not to answer” or skipped the question |
