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PolicyLink and PERE 102 An Equity Profile of Orange County Selected terms and general notes Data and methods Filipinos among the Asian American population or Salvadorans among the Latino population, it could only do so for immigrants, leaving only the broad "Asian American" and "Latino" racial/ethnic categories for the U.S.-born population. While this methodological choice makes little difference in the numbers of immigrants by origin we report—i.e., the vast majority of immigrants from El Salvador mark "Salvadoran" for their ancestry—it is an important point of clarification. Other selected terms Below we provide definitions and clarification around some of the terms used in the equity profile: • The terms "region," "metropolitan area," and "metro area," are used interchangeably to refer to the geographic areas defined as Metropolitan Statistical Areas under the OMB's December 2003 definitions. At several points in the profile we present rankings comparing the profiled region to the "150 largest metros" or "150 largest regions," and refer in the text to how the profiled region compares with these metros. In all such instances, we are referring to the largest 150 metropolitan statistical areas in terms of 2010 population, based on the OMB's December 2003 definitions, but breaking up the Los Angeles metro area, which includes both Los Angeles and Orange Counties, into separate counties. • The term "neighborhood" is used at various points throughout the equity profile. While in the introductory portion of the profile this term is meant to be interpreted in the colloquial sense, in relation to any data analysis it refers to census tracts. • The term "communities of color" generally refers to distinct groups defined by race/ethnicity among people of color. • The term "full-time" workers refers to all persons in the IPUMS microdata who reported working at least 45 or 50 weeks per year (depending on the year of the data) and usually worked at least 35 hours per week during the year prior to the survey. A change in the "weeks worked" question in the 2008 ACS, as compared with prior years of the ACS and the long form of the decennial census, caused a dramatic rise in the share of respondents indicating that they worked at least 50 weeks during the year prior to the survey. To make our data on full-time workers more comparable over time, we applied a slightly different definition in 2008 and later than in earlier years: in 2008 and later, the "weeks worked" cutoff is at least 50 weeks while in 2007 and earlier it is 45 weeks. The 45-week cutoff was found to produce a national trend in the incidence of full-time work over the 2005- 2010 period that was most consistent with that found using data from the March Supplement of the Current Population Survey, which did not experience a change to the relevant survey questions. For more information, see: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census /library/working-papers/2012/demo/Gottsch alck_2012FCSM_VII-B.pdf. (continued)

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