St. Joseph Community Partnership Fund

PolicyLink and PERE 101 An Equity Profile of Orange County Selected terms and general notes Data and methods Broad racial/ethnic origin categories Unless otherwise noted, the categorization of people by race/ethnicity and nativity is based on individual responses to various census surveys. All people included in our analysis were first assigned to one of six mutually exclusive racial/ethnic categories, depending on their response to two separate questions on race and Hispanic origin as follows: • "white" and "non-Hispanic white" are used to refer to all people who identify as white alone and do not identify as being of Hispanic origin. • "Black" and "African American" are used to refer to all people who identify as Black or African American alone and do not identify as being of Hispanic origin. • "Latino" refers to all people who identify as being of Hispanic origin, regardless of racial identification. • "Asian or Pacific Islander," "Asian American/Pacific Islander," and "API" are used to refer to all people who identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander alone and do not identify as being of Hispanic origin. • In cases where "Pacific Islanders" are disaggregated, "Pacific Islanders" can refer to anyone identifying as Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone or in combination. Please check the notation in the figure for further information clarification. • "Native American" and "Native American and Alaska Native" are used to refer to all people who identify as Native American or Alaskan Native alone and do not identify as being of Hispanic origin. • "Mixed/other" and "other or mixed race" are used to refer to all people who identify with a single racial category not included above, or identify with multiple racial categories, and do not identify as being of Hispanic origin. • "People of color" or "POC" is used to refer to all people who do not identify as non- Hispanic white. Nativity The term "U.S.-born" refers to all people who identify as being born in the United States (including U.S. territories and outlying areas), or born abroad to American parents. The term "immigrant" refers to all people who identify as being born abroad, outside of the United States, to non-American parents. Detailed racial/ethnic ancestry Given the diversity of ethnic origin and large presence of immigrants among the Latino, Asian American, and Pacific Islander populations, we sometimes present data for more specific racial/ethnic subcategories within these groups. In order to maintain consistency with the broad racial/ethnic categories and to enable the examination of second-and-higher generation immigrants, these more detailed categories (referred to as "ancestry") are drawn from the first response to the census question on ancestry, recorded in the IPUMS variable "ANCESTR1." For example, while country-of-origin information could have been used to identify

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