It should be the “norm” for federal data to be broken down or disaggregated by ethnicity, race, gender, disability, income level, veteran status or other demographics, Biden administration officials said recently.
That is one of the many recommendations from a report the White House released late Friday afternoon by the Equitable Data Working Group, which was established by a Day 1 executive order from President Biden. Many federal datasets aren’t disaggregated, which has had “cascading effects and impedes efforts to measure and advance equity,” said the order. The new report serves as a roadmap for the federal government to establish a federal strategy on equitable data.
