Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 10:42:29 GMT -8
From the Outdoor Foundation, the acknowledged "top outdoor-recreation lobby in America," here is the Outdoor Participation Report for 2014. (See page 32.) Note that the Outdoor Foundation and Census Bureau do not tabulate ethnic/racial groups according to the same categories, so any attempt to correlate such groups as Hispanics is liable to be fraught with error.
The Outdoor Council follows a simple division of four groups — which includes Hispanics. The Census Bureau has no less than 15 categories — none of which is Hispanic — because that attribute in Census Bureau data is treated as a different question of language/cultural background rather than racial/ethnic group.
In other words, one can be of any one or more of 15 racial/ethnic groups and still include themselves in the Hispanic category in a separate question. That fact in itself disallows any attempt to correlate one for one Asian to Asian, Hispanic to Hispanic, Black to Black and so on from Outdoor Council to Census Bureau data.
The Outdoor Council's tabulations show that minority participation in non-motorized, nature-based, outdoor recreation is comparable to that of "whites" adjusted only by socio-economic factors and the margin of error in the surveys (supposedly 4%.) We have endless reason to suppose that minorities do in fact love hiking as much as anyone else.
And finally from 1966 Magazine something to shock those preconceived and dearly-held prejudices, minorities hiking:
The Outdoor Council follows a simple division of four groups — which includes Hispanics. The Census Bureau has no less than 15 categories — none of which is Hispanic — because that attribute in Census Bureau data is treated as a different question of language/cultural background rather than racial/ethnic group.
In other words, one can be of any one or more of 15 racial/ethnic groups and still include themselves in the Hispanic category in a separate question. That fact in itself disallows any attempt to correlate one for one Asian to Asian, Hispanic to Hispanic, Black to Black and so on from Outdoor Council to Census Bureau data.
The Outdoor Council's tabulations show that minority participation in non-motorized, nature-based, outdoor recreation is comparable to that of "whites" adjusted only by socio-economic factors and the margin of error in the surveys (supposedly 4%.) We have endless reason to suppose that minorities do in fact love hiking as much as anyone else.
And finally from 1966 Magazine something to shock those preconceived and dearly-held prejudices, minorities hiking: