Family Physician Racial Identity: An Analysis of “Other” Race Selection and Implications for Future Data Collection

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Table 1.

Categories of Open-Text Responses to “Other” Race Selection (n = 4,519)

Category	n (% of “Other”)	Example Responses
Hispanic/Latinx	917 (20.3%)	Hispanic; Latino; Puerto Rican
South Asian	878 (19.4%)	South Asian; East Indian; Pakistani
Multi-ethnic	745 (16.5%)	Multiracial; Mixed: South Asian/White; Black and White
Middle Eastern, North African (MENA)	477 (10.6%)	Middle Eastern; Arabic; Egyptian
Cynicism or unclarity	440 (9.7%)	All American Mutt; Human; Brown; Stop being racist
Blank	433 (9.6%)	Typed nothing at all, or just punctuation or a single letter
Nationality or regional affiliation	388 (8.6%)	Filipino; European American; Native Central American
None apply	104 (2.3%)	n/a; Other
Decline to answer	98 (2.2%)	Prefer not to answer
Religious/ethnic identification	39 (0.9%)	Jewish; Muslim

Notes: The Nationality or regional affiliation category contains nationalities, countries, and regional identities that did not fit in the Census definitions of Hispanic, South Asian, or MENA racial groups and/or that were too few to warrant their own category.