racial demographics
Ethnic population breakdown
Racial demographics refers to the statistical breakdown of a population by race or ethnicity—the proportions of different racial groups within a country, city, or other defined area.
The term appears frequently in discussions of census data, voting patterns, housing, and social policy: The racial demographics of the neighborhood have shifted dramatically over the past decade.
- minority groupsPopulations smaller in number
- census dataCollected demographic statistics
- ethnicityShared cultural heritage group
- representationDepiction or likeness
- segregationForced separation by group
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- racerace, ethnicity, biracial, multiracial, mixed race
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
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racial demographicspersonal identity
One's defining characteristics
self-identification · single person · personal biography · case study
racial demographicspersonal narrative
Self-told life account
ethnography · biographical data · lived experience · anecdotal evidence
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