POSTED: Friday, January 18, 2013 - 7:06pm UPDATED: Monday,
January 21, 2013 - 8:58am BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS (NEWS CENTER 23) —
With preparations already underway for the 2020 population
count, the U.S. Census Bureau is considering some questionnaire
changes. The term Hispanic actually refers to an ethnicity or
origin and not to a race, but there is confusion about that
among members of the Hispanic community. So in an attempt to
eliminate that uncertainty...and to make sure Hispanics are not
under counted in 2020, The Census Bureau may combine race and
ethnicity questions into one category rather than two. "We did
not treat Hispanic as a race at all in the combined approach the
way we did the analysis the way we calculated the data it has
always been an ethnicity and it will always be we’re not making
it there’s no proposal there has been anything of the census
making it a race at all." Focus studies have indicated most
Hispanics would prefer the two questions be combined.
"Throughout the country we did 67 focus