Student’s Name: Unit Title: Date: Institution: definition of the terms: "conceptual definition" and "operational definition In research, a conceptual definition tells you what a concept means in abstract or theoretical terms. An operational definition links a concept to the concrete world by telling you how to observe and / or measure the concept. Conceptual describes things in terms of its abstract characteristics and its relationships to other conceptual entities. Operation describes things in the actual physical action. The operational definition of a variable is the specific way in which it is measured in that study (Murphy-Erby, Christy-McMullin, Stauss, & Schriver, 2010). Conceptual definition is said to be limited as …show more content…
The revision of races which included the Hispanic origin and hence reflect on the United States of America diversity was one of the major and important changes that the 2000 census bureau did. The change interfered with two or more races in America. With the 2000 census, an individual was allowed to mark more than one option in the race category where many people showed that they were from difference races (Murphy-Erby, Christy-McMullin, Stauss, & Schriver, 2010). Why did the Bureau make these …show more content…
The revision allowed a minimum of five categories for data on race. Later in the year 2000, the OMB sanctioned a sixth category for the people who can’t identify with the other five races. The sixth category is “Some other race” along with different “in combination” categories. The people had an option of selecting more than one race to give their identity (Babbie, 2011). Some of the reasons why the census bureau made the changes was due to the diversity of the lifestyle of the United States were many Families experienced change. Also, in the previous limited categories, many people were not reporting the correct race as the options were limited. There were roughly 18.5 million people who identified "Some other race" as part of or their only, race response (Babbie, 2011) .These people were primarily of Hispanic origin, 90.4 percent or 16.8 million people, and many wrote in their Hispanic origin or Hispanic origin type. Most of the people wrote in Hispanic source or Hispanic birthplace write and in light of the fact that the Hispanics are the nation's biggest minority group (Babbie,