Best Practices for American Indian and Alaska Native Data Collection

Information from the Urban Indian Health Institute

“We will not be erased in the data. We demand to be counted.”

“Current standard data collection practices by many federal, state, and local entities effectively omit or misclassify Native people. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic this is resulting in a gross undercount of the impact COVID-19 has had in our communities.

UIHI has created a resource with best practices in collecting Native data so you can help advocate for Native people to be counted. It also has guidance for local and state entities on how to collect that data correctly. We will be counted

Learn what you and the data collectors in your area can do to ensure our data is being collected properly and that we are accurately represented in the numbers.”