The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) undertakes periodic reviews of its Federal statistical standards to ensure that they are keeping pace with changes in the population and evolving needs and uses for data. In 2022, OMB convened the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards (Working Group).
Read MoreThe Leadership Conference Education Fund’s Fact Sheet on Collecting and Publishing Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity: Understanding OMB Directive 15.
Read MoreCoalition letter to OMB in support of a combined question and a MENA category signed by 160 national and community-based NGOs.
Read MoreEstebanico Azemmouri, a Moroccan man, landed in the United States of America in 1527, and Antonio Bishallany who immigrated from Lebanon became the first member of a community today known as “Arab Americans.” This is the story of Arab Americans’ beginning in America – and the origins of their quest for fair representation.
Read MoreWithout a MENA Category, the source for Arab American data has historically been the American Community Survey. While incomplete, we use 2017 ACS data and AAI research and surveys to produce this document to provide a snapshot of the origins, population, education, occupation, and income statistical estimates for Arab Americans.
Read MoreFrom the 2020 Census Get-Out-the-Count campaign, this fact sheet explains the difficulties in detecting disinformation. In the age of social media, there is a huge amount of information out there, and it can be hard to sort through it all. However, here are some generalizations about what disinformation looks like and some tools to let you dig deeper into disinformation online.
Read MoreFrom the 2020 Census Get-Out-the-Count campaign, this document explains the many ways the Census impacts all of us, especially as Arab Americans.
Read MoreFrom the 2020 Census Get-Out-the-Count campaign, this issue brief explains the importance of the census to our democracy and the recommendations we proposed for ensuring a fair and accurate count of Arab Americans in 2020.
Read MoreBrief for the Arab American Institute as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Brief focuses on the MENA category.
Read MoreThe Census Bureau’s Overview of the 2015 National Content Test presented at the Census Information Centers (CIC) Annual Conference in 2017.
Read MoreThe Office of Management and Budget’s 1997 Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
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