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In the United States, federal standards for classifying data on ethnicity determine
the categories used by federal agencies and exert a strong influence on
categorization by state and local agencies and private sector organizations. The
federal standards do not conceptually define ethnicity, and they recognize the
absence of an anthropological or scientific basis for ethnicity classification.
Instead, the federal standards acknowledge that ethnicity is a social-political
construct in which an individual's own identification with a particular ethnicity
is
preferred to observer identification. The standards specify two minimum ethnicity
categories: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino. The standards define a
Hispanic or Latino as a person of "Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central
America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race." The standards
stipulate that ethnicity data need not be limited to the two minimum categories, but
any expansion must be collapsible to those categories. In addition, the standards
stipulate that an individual can be Hispanic or Latino or can be Not Hispanic or
Latino, but cannot be both.