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Technical Assistance Brief No.1: Mapping NYTD Race Information

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• The race or at least one race of the youth is unknown. To capture this information on the
  worker's entry screen, the State may want to have a field that indicates the youth's race is
  unknown ("unknown"). A State may also choose to have a field that indicates that the
  youth is multi-racial and that one of his/her races is unknown ("multi-racial-other race not
  known"). In this scenario, at least one of the five designated race categories would be
  captured as well.


• The youth and/or parent is not able to communicate the youth's race. To capture this
  information on the worker's entry screen, the State may want to have a field that indicates
  this situation ("incapacitated or unable to communicate"). Each of these fields would then
  be mapped in NYTD to "unknown."

As shown in the chart below, both NYTD race responses "unknown" and "declined" are
mapped to the "unable to determine" race response in AFCARS. In an effort to capture
accurate data for the NYTD race elements, States should exercise care in providing workers
clear, meaningful options to input the responses. The extraction code also must correctly map
these responses to the correct NYTD or AFCARS race element responses. A State that is in the
process of changing their entry screens to accommodate the new NYTD race elements may
also want to add the value of "abandoned" which for AFCARS purposes maps to the element
"unable to determine."


NYTD to AFCARS Mapping Chart

NYTD American Indian or Alaska Native Asian Black or African American Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander White Unknown Declined

AFCARS American Indian or Alaska Native Asian Black or African American Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander White Unable to determine Unable to determine

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