Best Practices for American Indian and Alaska Native Data Collection

Learn best practices for collecting data on American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

Current standard data collection practices by many federal, state, and local entities effectively omit or misclassify American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations, both urban and rural. This is particularly concerning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic as these current standards of practice are resulting in a gross under count of the impact COVID-19 has on Native people.

Updated on August 26, 2020