Racial/Ethnic categories

Category Descriptions

Asian

May include individuals with origins in Northern Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. For example, Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Filipino, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese

Black

May include individuals with origins in any of the black racial groups of Sub-Saharan Africa. For example, African American, Black British, Barbadian, Ethiopian, Haitian, Ghanaian, Jamaican, Kenyan, Liberian, Nigerian, Somali

Hispanic / Latin

May include individuals of South or Central American or Caribbean descent or other Hispanic culture or origin. For example, Brazilian, Colombian, Cuban, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican

Indigenous People

May include individuals with cultural or historic ties to groups that existed in a territory prior to colonization or formation of a nation state, specific to certain domiciles. For example, Native American, Hawaiian, Samoan, Alaska Native, First Nations, Inuit, Māori, Métis, Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander

Middle Eastern / North African

May include individuals with origins from countries in Southwest Asia, the Middle East or North Africa. For example, Afghan, Arab, Bahrain, Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Lebanese, Moroccan, Syrian, Tunisian, Turkish

White

May include individuals with origins in Europe. For example, English, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Polish, Swedish.

Two or More Races

May include individuals with origins that include two or more of the categories listed above; for example, White / Asian or Hispanic / Black, Afro-Latino

Prefer to identify another way

A person of any racial or ethnic group not categorized by the above

Not sure

A person unsure of what to choose as a category of identification

Opt out

A person who would prefer not to provide their ethnicity data