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RAC2P

Recoded detailed race code

Type
Categorical
Length
4
Value codes
170
Survey
2024 ACS 1-Year

RAC2Pis the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS PUMS variable for recoded detailed race code. It is a categorical field with 170 possible category codes, released in the 2024 Public Use Microdata Sample. The full list of value codes and their labels is below.

RAC2P value codes

CodeLabel
1001Albanian alone
1002Armenian alone
1003Austrian alone
1004Basque alone
1005Belarusian alone
1006Belgian alone
1007Bosnian and Herzegovinian alone
1008British alone
1009British Islander alone
1010Bulgarian alone
1011Celtic alone
1012Croatian alone
1013Czech alone
1014Danish alone
1015Dutch alone
1016English alone
1017Estonian alone
1018Finnish alone
1019French alone
1020Georgian alone
1021German alone
1022Greek alone
1023Hungarian alone
1024Icelandic alone
1025Irish alone
1026Italian alone
1027Latvian alone
1028Lithuanian alone
1029Luxembourger alone
1030Macedonian alone
1031Maltese alone
1032Moldovan alone
1033Montenegrin alone
1034Norwegian alone
1035Polish alone
1036Portuguese alone
1037Romanian alone
1038Russian alone
1039Scandinavian alone
1040Scots-Irish alone
1041Scottish alone
1042Serbian alone
1043Slavic alone
1044Slovak alone
1045Slovenian alone
1046Swedish alone
1047Swiss alone
1048Turkish alone
1049Ukrainian alone
1050Welsh alone
1051Algerian alone
1052Arab alone
1053Assyrian alone
1054Chaldean alone
1055Egyptian alone
1056Iranian alone
1057Iraqi alone
1058Israeli alone
1059Jordanian alone
1060Kurdish alone
1061Lebanese alone
1062Moroccan alone
1063Palestinian alone
1064Saudi alone
1065Syrian alone
1066Tunisian alone
1067Yemeni alone
1068Australian alone
1069Cajun alone
1070Canadian alone
1071French Canadian alone
1072Pennsylvania German alone
1073Other White alone
3001African American alone
3002Burundian alone
3003Cameroonian alone
3004Congolese alone
3005Eritrean alone
3006Ethiopian alone
3007Gambian alone
3008Ghanaian alone
3009Guinean alone
3010Ivoirian alone
3011Kenyan alone
3012Liberian alone
3013Nigerian (Nigeria) alone
3014Rwandan alone
3015Senegalese alone
3016Sierra Leonean alone
3017Somali alone
3018South African alone
3019South Sudanese alone
3020Sudanese alone
3021Tanzanian alone
3022Togolese alone
3023Ugandan alone
3024Zimbabwean alone
3025Bahamian alone
3026Barbadian alone
3027Grenadian alone
3028Haitian alone
3029Jamaican alone
3030St. Lucian alone
3031Trinidadian and Tobagonian alone
3032West Indian alone
3033Other Black or African American alone
4000Chinese, except Taiwanese alone
4001Hmong alone
4002Japanese alone
4003Korean alone
4004Mongolian alone
4005Taiwanese alone
4006Burmese alone
4007Cambodian alone
4008Filipino alone
4009Indonesian alone
4010Laotian alone
4011Malaysian alone
4012Mien alone
4013Thai alone
4014Vietnamese alone
4015Asian Indian alone
4016Bangladeshi alone
4017Bhutanese alone
4018Nepalese alone
4019Pakistani alone
4021Sri Lankan alone
4022Afghan alone
4023Kazakh alone
4024Uzbek alone
4025Other Asian alone and all Asian combinations
5000Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana alone
5001Cherokee Nation alone
5002Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota alone
5026Comanche Nation, Oklahoma
5003Crow Tribe of Montana alone
5004Hopi Tribe of Arizona alone
5005Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina alone
5006Navajo Nation alone
5007Oglala Sioux Tribe alone
5009Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota alone
5010The Chickasaw Nation alone
5011The Muscogee (Creek) Nation alone
5012Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona alone
5027Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
5013All other American Indian tribes alone
5014American Indian alone, not specified
5015Aztec alone
5016Inca alone
5017Maya alone
5018Mixtec alone
5019Taino alone
5020Tarasco (Purepecha) alone
5021All other Latin American Indian alone
5022Alaska Native tribes and villages alone
5023Alaska Native alone, not specified
5024Other specified American Indian and Alaska Native combinations
5025American Indian and Alaska Native alone, not specified
7500Native Hawaiian alone
7501Samoan alone
7502Tongan alone
7503Chamorro alone
7506Marshallese alone
7507Fijian alone
7508Other Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) alone and all NHPI combinations
8001Brazilian alone
8002Cabo Verdean alone
8003Guyanese alone
8004Other Some Other Race alone
9000Two or More Races

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RAC2P — FAQ

What is the RAC2P variable in PUMS?+

RAC2P is the 2024 ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) variable for "Recoded detailed race code". It is a categorical field 4 characters long.

What are the RAC2P codes?+

RAC2P has 170 value codes in the 2024 dictionary, each mapping a numeric code to a category label — all of them are listed on this page.

Where does the RAC2P variable come from?+

RAC2P is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2024 ACS PUMS data dictionary. PUMSdata is an independent product that makes this microdata easy to explore, and is not affiliated with the Census Bureau.

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