[CTPP News] NPR Article on race alone plus race in combination

This is a fascinating, excellent article by Hansi Lo Wang and Ruth Talbot for the National Public Radio: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/22/1029609786/2020-census-data-results-white-po… <https://www.npr.org/2021/08/22/1029609786/2020-census-data-results-white-population-shrinking-decline-non-hispanic-race> “This is How the White Population is Actually Changing Based on New Census Data” The article is a must read if you’re interested in race/ethnicity in Census Bureau data. They basically used the PL 94-171 data to tally up the persons who ticked off “white” as well as “white” plus any other racial group. I did this (for the Bay Area) using the 2010 Census data, in Excel. But this was excruciating given the number of combinations in a 70 cell table. I am hoping that some enterprising analyst has created R-package code to take PL 94-171 data (using the R package PL94171) and create these extra variables: white alone plus white in combination with other races black alone plus black in combination with other races asian alone plus asian in combination with other races NHOPI alone plus NHOPI in combination with other races AIAN alone plus AIAN in combination with other races other alone plus other in combination with other races NHOPI = Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander AIAN = American Indian or Alaskan Native. Anybody willing to share their R code???? cheers, Chuck Purvis, Hayward, California