Public Comment Period for the OMB Race and Ethnicity Data

This announcement was first published by the Management and Budget Office on 01/27/2023.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requests comments on the initial proposals from the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards (Working Group) for revising OMB’s 1997 Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15).^[1] Responses to this Notice will be shared with the Working Group and will help the Working Group develop their final recommendations to OMB and will also help OMB determine how to revise SPD 15 to improve the quality and usefulness of Federal race and ethnicity data.

Timeline: The public comment period ends on April 12, 2023.

You can also visit https://spd15revision.gov/ to learn more about the short history of this guidance since 1977 and other potentially useful links.

For more information please visit: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/27/2023-01635/initial-proposals-for-updating-ombs-race-and-ethnicity-statistical-standards

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