Ethnicity Questions by Country
South America — countries documented in the supplied census questionnaires
No currently documented South American questionnaire in this initial set has been retained for this topic. Entries will be added only when the supplied questionnaire explicitly supports them.
Chile
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2024
- Form
- Censo de Población y Vivienda 2024 — Cuestionario de Abordaje Aymara
- Question
- 2.07
Responses:
The questionnaire provides five write-in spaces for “Etnias, pueblos ou grupos indígenas” (ethnicities, peoples, or Indigenous groups).
Question type: Open-ended; community-level identification of ethnicities, peoples, or Indigenous groups
Brazil
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2022
- Form
- Censo Demográfico 2022 — Questionário Amostra
- Question
- 4.03
Responses:
For a person who declared or considers themselves Indigenous, the questionnaire asks for the Indigenous ethnicity/people/group and provides up to two records (4.03.1 and 4.03.2) using a selectable list.
Question type: Open/selectable-list response; conditional on Indigenous identification
Colombia
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2018
- Form
- Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018 — Cuestionario para hogares
- Question
- 37
Responses:
| Code / item | Response |
|---|---|
| 1 | Indígena? — Indigenous |
| 2 | Gitano(a) o Rrom? — Romani/Rrom |
| 3 | Raizal del Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina |
| 4 | Palenquero(a) de San Basilio |
| 5 | Negro(a), mulato(a), afrodescendiente, afrocolombiano(a) |
| 6 | Ningún grupo étnico — No ethnic group |
Question type: 3 — specified ethnic-group identification
Ecuador
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2022
- Form
- Censo de Población y Vivienda 2022 — Cuestionario para viviendas particulares
- Question
- 11
Responses:
| Code / item | Response |
|---|---|
| 1 | Indígena? — Indigenous |
| 2 | Afroecuatoriana/o o Afrodescendiente? — Afro-Ecuadorian/Afro-descendant |
| 3 | Negra/o? — Black |
| 4 | Mulata/o? — Mulatto |
| 5 | Montubia/o |
| 6 | Mestiza/o — Mestizo |
| 7 | Blanca/o — White |
| 8 | Otro? — Other; specify |
Question type: 3 — cultural and customary ethnic identification
Guyana
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2022
- Form
- 2022 Population & Housing Census — Individual Questionnaire
- Question
- P1.4
Responses:
| Code / item | Response |
|---|---|
| 1 | African/Black |
| 2 | Amerindian |
| 3 | East Indian |
| 4 | Chinese |
| 5 | Mixed |
| 6 | Portuguese |
| 7 | White |
| 8 | Other — specify |
Question type: 2 — specified response with an “Other” write-in
Source: guyana_2022_combined_EN.pdf