Consensus Memo Responding to Initial Proposals for Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards (Federal Register 2023-01635)

This consensus memo represents our collective, transdisciplinary response to the Office ofManagement and Budget’s call for comments on initial proposals to (1) collect race and ethnicity information using one combined question; (2) add “Middle Eastern or North African” (MENA) as a new minimum category; and (3) require the collection of detailed race and ethnicity categories by default.