Social Identification of Race in Canada - Policy Brief P

Findings from the literature in the US and Canada on the accuracy of social identification and its relation to other measures of race, including the concordance of various measures of race identity, and the association between social identification and outcomes such as health are also reviewed. [...] 2.0 Objectives The main objectives of this policy brief are: 1) To examine the literature on the practice and accuracy of the social identification of race and identity, and its associated outcomes 2) To provide an overview of existing practices and policies for the collection of race-based data in the fields of social services, health, and education and compare practices in Ontario with other pro. [...] Prior to the ARA, the collection of race and identity-based data across public sectors was also stimulated by the release of a new guide on the collection of identity-based data from the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 2010, which helped to dispel the myth that collecting and analyzing data that identifies people on the basis of race is not permitted under the Ontario Human Rights Code. [...] However, the lack of disaggregated race and ethnicity data in Canada at the start of the pandemic limited the ability of policymakers and public health agencies to identify or monitor health disparities and to develop evidence-based interventions to reduce these inequities in the context of COVID-19 (McKenzie, 2020). [...] • The DCYF recognizes the importance of the source and method for the collection of race and identity-based data and have established the method of self-report (or parent/caregiver report in the case of young children) as the gold standard in all program data collection across the agency (Cummings et al., 2021, p.6).