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OMB Postpones SPD 15 Data on Race and Ethnicity Implementation

April 17, 2026 11:58 AM | DCSS Admin (Administrator)

Tip via Mark Mather, Associate VP, PRB on Federal Data Users Forum

"The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is further extending a timeline in its Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. ... OMB is further extending the deadline for requiring the Chief Financial Officers Act Agencies and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to submit to OMB an Action Plan on Race and Ethnicity Data by an additional year, from March 28, 2026 to March 28, 2027."

OMB SPD 15 hub

PRB: "Race/Ethnicity Categories in Federal Surveys Are Changing: Implications for Data Users" (2024)

Census: "Implementation of SPD 15 in the American Community Survey" (2024) and "Race/Ethnicity Coding Improvement Project" (2024)

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