Has anyone had any experience doing work in Canada that can shed some light on the best way to ask race / sex / ethnicity? We are getting ready to do some new research, and are concerned that the Qualtrics Universal standards may not be right for Canada and some other countries.

UCLA released some guidelines for asking about sex/gender in 2014, while it's not specifically related to Canada, I think it highlights suggestions on the best approach to asking about this in a way that's more inclusive https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/geniuss-report-sep-2014.pdfI'm not sure about the race/ethnicity part, but one suggestion could be to look at Universities in Canada and see how they break down their student demographics. This may give you a spring board to see how they are reported and maybe give some insight on the language used. May be a good place to start?

Good point @AnthonyR. While Native American is an accepted race category in the US it would be Aboriginal or First Nations for Canada.

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