Statistics South Africa menyediakan lima kategori rasial sehingga orang-orang bisa mengkategorikan dirinya sendiri, yang terakhir, "tidak menyatakan/lainnya" merupakan respons yang akan diabaikan dan dihilangkan.[7] Angka perkiraan pertengahan tahun 2010 untuk kategori lainnya adalah Kulit hitam 78,4%, Kulit putih 10,2%, Kulit berwarna 8,8%, India/Asia 2,6%.[8] Sensus pertama di Afrika Selatan pada 1912 menunjukan Kulit putih membentuk 22% populasi; persentase menurun pada 16% di tahun 1980.[9]
^Lehohla, Pali (5 May 2005). "Debate over race and censuses not peculiar to SA". Business Report. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 14 August 2007. Diakses tanggal 25 August 2013. Others pointed out that the repeal of the Population Registration Act in 1991 removed any legal basis for specifying 'race'. The Identification Act of 1997 makes no mention of race. On the other hand, the Employment Equity Act speaks of 'designated groups' being 'black people, women and people with disabilities'. The Act defines 'black' as referring to 'Africans, coloureds and Indians'. Apartheid and the racial identification which underpinned it explicitly linked race with differential access to resources and power. If the post-apartheid order was committed to remedying this, race would have to be included in surveys and censuses, so that progress in eradicating the consequences of apartheid could be measured and monitored. This was the reasoning that led to a 'self-identifying' question about 'race' or 'population group' in both the 1996 and 2001 population censuses, and in Statistics SA's household survey programme.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)
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