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Fewer Persons Self-Identify as Multiracial

By j7uy5 on May 3, 2007.

According
to href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070503/NEWS07/70503070">a
study done at the University of Michigan's href="http://www.isr.umich.edu/home/">Institute for Social
Research, fewer people are identifying themselves as href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial" rel="tag">multiracial.
 



Reynolds
Farley Ph.D. reported:



The
annual ACS, which samples about 3 million households, shows a clear
trend, Farley says. In the 2000 survey, 2.1 percent checked more than
one race. In 2005, it slipped to 1.9 percent. ”It’s
a slight decrease but statistically significant,” Farley says.



Dr. Farley states "there's no overall
explanation."  There are a few hypothesis mentioned,
but no one really knows why.



Demographers
widely expected the numbers to rise as more children were born to
mixed-race parents and multiracial organizations sprouted on college
campuses. The opposite happened.



The article goes on to point out that census data lead to
underestimations of the incidence of multiethnicity.


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