About 6 Million U.S. Adults Identify as Afro Latino, New Report Finds
NBC’s accessible version of the landmark Afro-Latino study leads with the measurement point that matters most: the census checkbox method finds 1.2 million Afro-Latinos, while Pew’s direct survey finds 6 million, because the identity is bigger than a mark-one-box question can capture. So which is it, 1.2 million or 6 million? The honest answer is that the question determines the count, and that is precisely the lesson our families keep teaching the statisticians.