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Measures of Ethnicity, Ethnic Identification, Acculturation, and Immigration Status

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Assessing Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Health

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Numerous systems exist for the classification of race and ethnicity and for the assessment of ethnic and racial identification. A number of the classification systems have been discussed in chapter 3 in conjunction with the classification systems that have been used in the past by the United States government for census purposes, and that discussion will not be repeated here.

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Loue, S. (2006). Measures of Ethnicity, Ethnic Identification, Acculturation, and Immigration Status. In: Assessing Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32462-3_6

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