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Citywide Race / Ethnicity Data Standard
What does equitable race/ethnicity data look like for your community?
How do you and your community want to be seen?
The Office of Racial Equity is creating guidelines for how the City and County of San Francisco should collect, analyze, and safeguard race/ethnicity data.
Who is seen, and who isn’t? Who gets counted, and who is doing the counting?
Right now, each City department has its own practices for collecting race/ethnicity data. While some of these were designed to meet federal or state requirements, we need a consistent citywide standard to measure outcomes for each community more accurately.
FAQs
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The “data standard” will be a set of guidelines and example practices for how City and County of San Francisco departments and agencies should collect, analyze, and report on race/ethnicity data.
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Right now, there is no citywide standard for how City departments should collect, analyze, or report on race/ethnicity data. Many community members have pointed out that City departments are doing this in different and sometimes inaccurate, confusing, or even offensive ways.
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Now through mid-2024:
Engagement with community groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and across California to understand what data practices and categories should be added
Engagement with City departments to identify technical implementation needs
Late 2024:
Testing the data standard with residents, including translation into multiple languages
Finalizing the data standard with Data SF and the Committee on Information Technology
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Questions? Want to talk to someone about equitable data practices for your community? Email RacialEquitySF@sfgov.org or call 415-252-2500.