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Race dropdown...

• leesalminen 10y ago
  ...which is optional? Pretty sure that whole optional section is pure demographic collection popular with many large employers.
• grzm 10y ago
  That's pretty typical of a lot of government forms in my experience, for collecting demographic information. While it might be tempting to read more into this, I'm not sure it's justified in this case.
• sandworm101 10y ago
  That is very normal in the US. Race seems to be atop many forms. Just today I had to rewrite a medical history form being used by a canadian government agency (mostly a 'do you suffer fainting spells?' type of form). They had adopted a form obviously written for a US audience and "race/ethnicity:___" came just after middle names. That's just not asked in Canada without a very good medical reason, for which this agency had absolutely none. It was a rush job.
• bphogan 10y ago
  https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf