Table 29. NCHS vs Census ethnicity distribution of population age 0 and mean absolute percent error (using NCHS ethnicity of mother -- unknowns recoded to non-Hispanic) Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Internet Release date: June 1997 proportion proportion proportion proportion non_hispanic non-Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic STATE from NCHS from Census from NCHS from Census MAPE ALABAMA 0.99456 0.99096 0.00544 0.00904 20.0851 ALASKA 0.97266 0.95611 0.02734 0.04389 19.7184 ARIZONA 0.72760 0.71018 0.27240 0.28982 4.2318 ARKANSAS 0.99093 0.98577 0.00907 0.01423 18.3852 CALIFORNIA 0.62107 0.61910 0.37893 0.38090 0.4173 COLORADO 0.83617 0.80726 0.16383 0.19274 9.2920 CONNECTICUT 0.89937 0.88917 0.10063 0.11083 5.1730 DELAWARE 0.97018 0.96119 0.02982 0.03881 12.0497 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 0.93158 0.92298 0.06842 0.07702 6.0497 FLORIDA 0.86778 0.86586 0.13222 0.13414 0.8255 GEORGIA 0.98290 0.97674 0.01710 0.02326 13.5546 HAWAII 0.89227 0.87629 0.10773 0.12371 7.3704 IDAHO 0.92251 0.90161 0.07749 0.09839 11.7815 ILLINOIS 0.88301 0.87253 0.11699 0.12747 4.7120 INDIANA 0.98072 0.97410 0.01928 0.02590 13.1146 IOWA 0.98546 0.97883 0.01454 0.02117 15.9946 KANSAS 0.95410 0.93340 0.04590 0.06660 16.6441 KENTUCKY 0.99473 0.99124 0.00527 0.00876 20.1365 LOUISIANA 0.99712 0.97642 0.00288 0.02358 44.9592 MAINE 0.99340 0.98963 0.00660 0.01037 18.3475 MARYLAND 0.97229 0.96389 0.02771 0.03611 12.0620 MASSACHUSETTS 0.91359 0.90906 0.08641 0.09094 2.7364 MICHIGAN 0.97208 0.96483 0.02792 0.03517 10.6826 MINNESOTA 0.98443 0.97620 0.01557 0.02380 17.7107 MISSISSIPPI 0.99759 0.99240 0.00241 0.00760 34.4132 MISSOURI 0.98773 0.98229 0.01227 0.01771 15.6414 MONTANA 0.97977 0.97332 0.02023 0.02668 12.4223 NEBRASKA 0.96839 0.95833 0.03161 0.04167 12.5909 NEVADA 0.87111 0.83129 0.12889 0.16871 14.1957 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0.99864 0.98291 0.00136 0.01709 46.8254 NEW JERSEY 0.85625 0.86950 0.14375 0.13050 5.8397 NEW MEXICO 0.56535 0.53631 0.43465 0.46369 5.8381 NEW YORK 0.82471 0.82719 0.17529 0.17281 0.8676 NORTH CAROLINA 0.98487 0.97976 0.01513 0.02024 12.8867 NORTH DAKOTA 0.98935 0.98621 0.01065 0.01379 11.5593 OHIO 0.98625 0.97958 0.01375 0.02042 16.6853 OKLAHOMA 0.99932 0.94900 0.00068 0.05100 51.9858 OREGON 0.94354 0.92050 0.05646 0.07950 15.7420 PENNSYLVANIA 0.96871 0.96341 0.03129 0.03659 7.5224 RHODE ISLAND 0.90835 0.91053 0.09165 0.08947 1.3353 SOUTH CAROLINA 0.99105 0.98634 0.00895 0.01366 17.4757 SOUTH DAKOTA 0.99039 0.98489 0.00961 0.01511 18.4746 TENNESSEE 0.99490 0.99026 0.00510 0.00974 24.0623 TEXAS 0.64556 0.65151 0.35444 0.34849 1.3095 UTAH 0.94526 0.93159 0.05474 0.06841 10.7227 VERMONT 0.99438 0.99273 0.00562 0.00727 11.4458 VIRGINIA 0.96692 0.96103 0.03308 0.03897 7.8692 WASHINGTON 0.93550 0.91534 0.06450 0.08466 13.0093 WEST VIRGINIA 0.99692 0.99385 0.00308 0.00615 25.1203 WISCONSIN 0.97606 0.96419 0.02394 0.03581 17.1898 WYOMING 0.93680 0.91451 0.06320 0.08549 14.2530 US Total 0.86502 0.86181 0.13498 0.13819 1.3470