Table 30. NCHS vs Census ethnicity distribution of population age 0 and mean absolute percent error (using NCHS ethnicity of father -- 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 0.99554 0.99096 0.00446 0.00904 25.5662 ALASKA 0.97197 0.95611 0.02803 0.04389 18.8989 ARIZONA 0.80674 0.71018 0.19326 0.28982 23.4573 ARKANSAS 0.99115 0.98577 0.00885 0.01423 19.1861 CALIFORNIA 0.62598 0.61910 0.37402 0.38090 1.4573 COLORADO 0.89854 0.80726 0.10146 0.19274 29.3319 CONNECTICUT 0.92276 0.88917 0.07724 0.11083 17.0393 DELAWARE 0.98228 0.96119 0.01772 0.03881 28.2636 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 0.96194 0.92298 0.03806 0.07702 27.4042 FLORIDA 0.88616 0.86586 0.11384 0.13414 8.7375 GEORGIA 0.98231 0.97674 0.01769 0.02326 12.2540 HAWAII 0.91490 0.87629 0.08510 0.12371 17.8064 IDAHO 0.92415 0.90161 0.07585 0.09839 12.7024 ILLINOIS 0.88402 0.87253 0.11598 0.12747 5.1676 INDIANA 0.98278 0.97410 0.01722 0.02590 17.2108 IOWA 0.98909 0.97883 0.01091 0.02117 24.7509 KANSAS 0.95531 0.93340 0.04469 0.06660 17.6223 KENTUCKY 0.99513 0.99124 0.00487 0.00876 22.4175 LOUISIANA 0.99721 0.97642 0.00279 0.02358 45.1421 MAINE 0.99328 0.98963 0.00672 0.01037 17.7879 MARYLAND 0.97356 0.96389 0.02644 0.03611 13.8932 MASSACHUSETTS 0.93367 0.90906 0.06633 0.09094 14.8827 MICHIGAN 0.98026 0.96483 0.01974 0.03517 22.7398 MINNESOTA 0.98680 0.97620 0.01320 0.02380 22.8022 MISSISSIPPI 0.99773 0.99240 0.00227 0.00760 35.3435 MISSOURI 0.98951 0.98229 0.01049 0.01771 20.7580 MONTANA 0.98263 0.97332 0.01737 0.02668 17.9386 NEBRASKA 0.97185 0.95833 0.02815 0.04167 16.9203 NEVADA 0.88819 0.83129 0.11181 0.16871 20.2849 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0.99864 0.98291 0.00136 0.01709 46.8254 NEW JERSEY 0.88032 0.86950 0.11968 0.13050 4.7685 NEW MEXICO 0.67956 0.53631 0.32044 0.46369 28.8016 NEW YORK 0.86463 0.82719 0.13537 0.17281 13.0942 NORTH CAROLINA 0.98276 0.97976 0.01724 0.02024 7.5507 NORTH DAKOTA 0.99020 0.98621 0.00980 0.01379 14.6594 OHIO 0.98755 0.97958 0.01245 0.02042 19.9173 OKLAHOMA 0.99924 0.94900 0.00076 0.05100 51.8981 OREGON 0.94375 0.92050 0.05625 0.07950 15.8906 PENNSYLVANIA 0.96653 0.96341 0.03347 0.03659 4.4295 RHODE ISLAND 0.92908 0.91053 0.07092 0.08947 11.3886 SOUTH CAROLINA 0.99136 0.98634 0.00864 0.01366 18.6480 SOUTH DAKOTA 0.98929 0.98489 0.01071 0.01511 14.7840 TENNESSEE 0.99445 0.99026 0.00555 0.00974 21.7114 TEXAS 0.71363 0.65151 0.28637 0.34849 13.6807 UTAH 0.95384 0.93159 0.04616 0.06841 17.4563 VERMONT 0.99581 0.99273 0.00419 0.00727 21.3829 VIRGINIA 0.97646 0.96103 0.02354 0.03897 20.5965 WASHINGTON 0.93589 0.91534 0.06411 0.08466 13.2562 WEST VIRGINIA 0.99633 0.99385 0.00367 0.00615 20.3047 WISCONSIN 0.98183 0.96419 0.01817 0.03581 25.5494 WYOMING 0.94821 0.91451 0.05179 0.08549 21.5513 US Total 0.88031 0.86181 0.11969 0.13819 7.7664