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Examines effects of public opinion, politics, law, and policy related to privacy and confidentiality on researchers' access to government administrative and statistical records; some focus on role of computer technology, and a case study of public controversy over the decennial census long form; US; since the 1970s, chiefly.

Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, formerly known as Statistical Policy Directive 15, is a classification system that governs the U.S. government's collection and presentation of data on race and ethnicity. The directive underwent a public evaluation between 1993 and 1997 to determine whether the racial and ethnic group categories should be revised. This article links theories of the role of the state in the social order and the social construction of identity to explain how conflictual political processes modify administrative policy. Two narratives on the debates over the reclassification of "Native Hawaiians" and the addition of a "multiracial" category illustrate recent political conflicts over group identities established by state agencies. The author argues that the main explanation for administrative policy changes was the responsiveness of state agencies to political demands of significantly mobilized groups with claims to state re sources.

Evaluates the classification system for data on race and ethnicity of Statistical Policy Directive 15, attempts at its revision, and its political and social policy implications; US.

Development of national statistics on racial and ethnic minorities; historical context of exclusion and representation in official recordkeeping; activity since the 1970s towards statistical and political inclusion. Some focus on role that interest groups played in the public review of "Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity," formerly "Statistical Policy Directive 15," 1993-97.

Discusses the premises on which racial and ethnic group statistics have been based, implementation in the instructions of the decennial censuses, and research showing that racial and ethnic group statistics produced by government record keeping systems have no objective status.