Various Pretesting Activities (see attached list)

Experimental Race Questions

B4a (X14): tests removing “race” from Other Asian and Other Pacific Islander, alphabetizing Other Asian examples, and including “banners” for Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander categories

9. What is this person’s race? Mark  one or more boxes.

 White

 Black, African Am., or Negro

 American Indian or Alaska Native -- Print name of enrolled or principal tribe

Asian Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific

Islander

 Asian Indian  Japanese  Native Hawaiian

 Chinese  Korean  Samoan

 Filipino  Vietnamese  Guamanian or Chamorro

 Other Asian – Print for example,  Other Pacific Islander – Print

Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, for example, Fijian, Tongan,

Pakistani, Thai, and so on. and so on.

 Some other race – Print race.

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B4c (X16): Cleanly tests the overall strategy of removing the ‘race’ term in the question by changing the question stem to exclude the term ‘race’ and removing ‘race’ from Other Asian and Other Pacific Islander instructions. Motivation = Reduced usage of the term “race” since national origin groups are not technically ‘race’ groups. Hypothesized effect on distribution = none.

Note that “spanner/banners” for Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander are not tested since recognition of difference between national origin and race is not needed if ‘race’ term does not appear in the question stem or the Other Asian and Other Pacific Islander instructions.

Note that the removal of ‘Negro’ from the ‘Black or African American’ category will be tested cleanly in existing AQE Panel B1c.

Note that the alphabetization of Other Asian examples will be tested cleanly in existing AQE Panel B1d.

9. Is this person… Mark  one or more boxes.

 White

 Black, African Am., or Negro

 American Indian or Alaska Native -- Print name of enrolled or principal tribe

 Asian Indian  Japanese  Native Hawaiian

 Chinese  Korean  Samoan

 Filipino  Vietnamese  Guamanian or Chamorro

 Other Asian – Print, for example,  Other Pacific Islander – Print,

Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, for example, Fijian, Tongan,

Cambodian, and so on. and so on.

 Some other race – Print race.

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B4d (X17): tests changing the question stem, removing “race” from Other Asian and Other Pacific Islander, alphabetizing Other Asian examples, and including “banners” for Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander catetories, and deleting “Negro” from the Black category

9. Is this person… Mark  one or more boxes.

 White

 Black or African Am.

 American Indian or Alaska Native -- Print name of enrolled or principal tribe

Asian Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific

Islander

 Asian Indian  Japanese  Native Hawaiian

 Chinese  Korean  Samoan

 Filipino  Vietnamese  Guamanian or Chamorro

 Other Asian – Print for example,  Other Pacific Islander – Print

Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, for example, Fijian, Tongan,

Pakistani, Thai, and so on. and so on.

 Some other race – Print race.

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