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Article: Study raises questions about accuracy of demographic studies.(STATS WATCH)
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- February 1, 2006
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A NEW REPORT BY THE JAMES IRvine Foundation raises questions about campus demographic figures. Each year, a growing number of students list their race or ethnicity as "unknown." Nationally that figure has risen from 3.2 percent enrolled in 1991 to 5.9 percent in 2001, a nearly 100 percent increase.
Researchers at the James Irvine Foundation Campus Diversity Initiative explored this trend in a study of three California campuses and revealed that, at least in the studied group, many of the "unknown" students were, in fact, white. One campus showed a 150 percent increase in white-only students after the "unknown" category was analyzed.
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