Completeness of Race and Ethnicity Reporting in Person-Level COVID-19 Surveillance Data, 50 States, April 2020-December 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color have borne a disproportionate incidence of COVID-19 cases in the United States. However, few studies have documented the completeness of race and ethnicity reporting in national COVID-19 surveillance data. The objective of this study was to describe the completeness of race and ethnicity ascertainment in person-level data received by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through national COVID-19 case surveillance.

Methods

We compared COVID-19 cases with "complete" (ie, per Office of Management and Budget 1997 revised criteria) data on race and ethnicity from CDC person-level surveillance data with CDC-reported aggregate counts of COVID-19 from April 5, 2020, through December 1, 2021, in aggregate and by state.

SUBMITTER: Erickson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10051003 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature