Measurement error in racial and ethnic statistics |
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Authors: | Michael Root |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 831 Walter Heller Hall, 271 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA |
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Abstract: | In the United States, the racial and ethnic statistics published by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) assume
that each member of the U.S. population has a race and ethnicity and that if a member is black or white with respect to his
risk of one disease, he is the same race with respect to his risk of another. Such an assumption is mistaken. Race and ethnicity
are taken by the NCHS to be an intrinsic property of members of a population, when they should be taken to depend on interest.
The actual or underlying race or ethnicity of members of a population depends on the risk whose variation within the population
we wish to describe or explain.
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Keywords: | Health statistics Measurement error Racial categories Measurement of human variation Stratifying human populations |
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