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.
If a participant selects more than one race-ethnicity group, they are then asked a follow-up question: “Of your choices, which do you most identify with?” They may select one of the race-ethnicity groups that they previously identified or the option “I identify equally with more than one group.”
If they select one race-ethnicity group, their response will be included with that race-ethnicity category’s data on the report. If they select “I identify equally with more than one group,” their data will be included in the “Multiracial” category on the report.