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Title: Why Is the Total Enrollment of American Indian and Alaska Native Precollegiates Such a Difficult Number to Find?

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: This article details the challenges and issues of using race and ethnicity data to measure American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) identity. In 2019, the Bureau of Indian Education prepared a preliminary report that considered an array of estimates of the AI/AN precollegiate population to proxy for the number of students eligible to participate in the Johnson O’Malley program, a federally funded program driven by community involvement and student needs assessments to design services that meet the specific academic and cultural needs of AI/AN precollegiate students. The data sets included in that report are analyzed to illustrate that estimating the total number of AIs/ANs is complicated by many factors, the current approach for processing and reporting AI/AN identity in federal data sets needs revision, and the current state of data collection does not meet the needs of policymakers, researchers, or community organizations. Finally, an algorithm is developed to improve on currently published estimates of the AI/AN precollegiate population by using the strengths of existing data sets to compensate for their weaknesses.

Url: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/840607/pdf

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Authors: Burnette, Jeffrey D.

Periodical (Full): Journal of American Indian Education

Issue: 1&2

Volume: 60

Pages: 162-186

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Race and Ethnicity

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