Table 33. NCHS vs Census ethnicity distribution of population age 0 and mean absolute percent error (using NCHS ethnicity of father -- unknowns recoded to ethnicity of mother) 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 0.99478 0.99096 0.00522 0.00904 21.3055 ALASKA 0.97040 0.95611 0.02960 0.04389 17.0276 ARIZONA 0.71960 0.71018 0.28040 0.28982 2.2882 ARKANSAS 0.98968 0.98577 0.01032 0.01423 13.9325 CALIFORNIA 0.61378 0.61910 0.38622 0.38090 1.1298 COLORADO 0.83150 0.80726 0.16850 0.19274 7.7904 CONNECTICUT 0.88994 0.88917 0.11006 0.11083 0.3867 DELAWARE 0.96991 0.96119 0.03009 0.03881 11.6840 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 0.93014 0.92298 0.06986 0.07702 5.0410 FLORIDA 0.86233 0.86586 0.13767 0.13414 1.5196 GEORGIA 0.98049 0.97674 0.01951 0.02326 8.2614 HAWAII 0.89954 0.87629 0.10046 0.12371 10.7245 IDAHO 0.91251 0.90161 0.08749 0.09839 6.1428 ILLINOIS 0.87583 0.87253 0.12417 0.12747 1.4850 INDIANA 0.97924 0.97410 0.02076 0.02590 10.1801 IOWA 0.98488 0.97883 0.01512 0.02117 14.6087 KANSAS 0.94872 0.93340 0.05128 0.06660 12.3235 KENTUCKY 0.99420 0.99124 0.00580 0.00876 17.0615 LOUISIANA 0.98684 0.97642 0.01316 0.02358 22.6187 MAINE 0.99201 0.98963 0.00799 0.01037 11.6047 MARYLAND 0.96989 0.96389 0.03011 0.03611 8.6176 MASSACHUSETTS 0.90952 0.90906 0.09048 0.09094 0.2792 MICHIGAN 0.96989 0.96483 0.03011 0.03517 7.4601 MINNESOTA 0.98104 0.97620 0.01896 0.02380 10.4220 MISSISSIPPI 0.99748 0.99240 0.00252 0.00760 33.6629 MISSOURI 0.98792 0.98229 0.01208 0.01771 16.1710 MONTANA 0.97723 0.97332 0.02277 0.02668 7.5384 NEBRASKA 0.96474 0.95833 0.03526 0.04167 8.0174 NEVADA 0.86316 0.83129 0.13684 0.16871 11.3602 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0.98807 0.98291 0.01193 0.01709 15.3638 NEW JERSEY 0.86156 0.86950 0.13844 0.13050 3.5013 NEW MEXICO 0.55942 0.53631 0.44058 0.46369 4.6459 NEW YORK 0.82028 0.82719 0.17972 0.17281 2.4169 NORTH CAROLINA 0.98140 0.97976 0.01860 0.02024 4.1436 NORTH DAKOTA 0.98910 0.98621 0.01090 0.01379 10.6279 OHIO 0.98556 0.97958 0.01444 0.02042 14.9565 OKLAHOMA 0.97379 0.94900 0.02621 0.05100 25.6071 OREGON 0.93431 0.92050 0.06569 0.07950 9.4352 PENNSYLVANIA 0.96569 0.96341 0.03431 0.03659 3.2383 RHODE ISLAND 0.90230 0.91053 0.09770 0.08947 5.0512 SOUTH CAROLINA 0.98989 0.98634 0.01011 0.01366 13.1696 SOUTH DAKOTA 0.98781 0.98489 0.01219 0.01511 9.8369 TENNESSEE 0.99386 0.99026 0.00614 0.00974 18.6696 TEXAS 0.64522 0.65151 0.35478 0.34849 1.3852 UTAH 0.94237 0.93159 0.05763 0.06841 8.4613 VERMONT 0.99443 0.99273 0.00557 0.00727 11.8084 VIRGINIA 0.96705 0.96103 0.03295 0.03897 8.0407 WASHINGTON 0.92451 0.91534 0.07549 0.08466 5.9186 WEST VIRGINIA 0.99587 0.99385 0.00413 0.00615 16.5516 WISCONSIN 0.97471 0.96419 0.02529 0.03581 15.2440 WYOMING 0.93748 0.91451 0.06252 0.08549 14.6916 US Total 0.85723 0.86181 0.14277 0.13819 1.9223