Preparing for the Big Shift: Changes to Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Standards

In 2024, the federal government announced new race and ethnicity data collection and reporting standards that will require changes to how data is collected, analyzed, and presented. This, in turn, will have major implications for state governments and private-sector entities that partner with federal agencies.

Key changes include: 1) combining Hispanic and Race into one category, 2) the addition of a new category, and 3) mandating disaggregation within racial categories like Asian wherever feasible.

By September 2025, federal agencies will submit their agency action plans for implementation. This is a critical time for state policy organizations to better understand the revision process, and to identify “use cases” that can inform and improve federal agency implementation.

In this webinar, AAPI Data, who helped inform the new standards, will share the background of these standards and what they mean for states, how your organization can be prepared to implement these new standards, and how to be a resource for other stakeholders in your state.