Malr210

The information about the ethnic groups in Colombia are wrong, why are you supporting your information with the CIA website, I do not know where they are getting all this information, I was looking for their sources and I could not find anything, in the other hand census are more reliable because the information is provided by a Colombian governmental institution and its available in different newspapers

CIA World Factbook is widely considered as reliable source. I personally prefer census data, but they are often too old. In case of Colombia, there is no dramatic difference between CIA and census - they might simply use different ethnic criteria. I am awaiting comments from other editors (I am not contributing much to country articles) and wish you the same. If no response, I'll bring it to the wikipedia project WT:COUNTRIES. Materialscientist (talk) 04:25, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

What is supporting CIA information ? The last census in Columbia was on 2005 and the government has a lot of information about it, it is not possible for CIA World Factbook to make a census with the same accuracy as Colombian government, in CIA Factbook is not posible to find their sources.

Frankly, I don't know, but census is by no means the only source - for example, population data are updated yearly from other datasets. Materialscientist (talk) 04:44, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

What kind of data sets ? For this kind of information a Census is the most reliable source, The only thing that I did not like about Colombian census is that they put the whites and the mestizos in the same group, so what some websites are doing is that they are saying "according to international sources whites represent the 20%" (they don"t cite CIA fact book but this is the only website that provides that information I agree with you in that point, but it does not make it correct, for the reason that I just told you is not possible to check their sources) maybe if we update this information we should add "according to the last Census in 2005" or "according to CIA factbook"

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