Race/Ethnicity Categorization in Hawaiʻi

Abstract

Hawaiʻi is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the US. Such a population profile often complicates race/ethnicity categorizations when data are prepared for analysis. The Hawaii population also includes a high proportion of mixed-race individuals. Categorization for those individuals is another challenge in data preparation. This presentation will discuss the challenge of working with data from racially/ethnically diverse communities and resources for categories and population size estimates for racial/ethnic groups, including the Biostatistics Core Hawai‘i Single-Race Categorization Tool.