Race and Ethnicity

New requirements:

OMB Releases New Standards for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity

Revisions to OMB's Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity

Summary of Major Changes

Combine the separate questions on race and ethnicity into a single combined race and ethnicity question

Add MENA as a new minimum reporting category distinct from all other reporting categories. Revise the definition for the White category to remove references to MENA, and classify and tabulate MENA responses under the new MENA category

In SIS

The Person Ethnicity business object contains the person's ethnicity and race details based on the PER_ETHNICITIES table.