Table 34. NCHS vs Census ethnicity distribution of population age 0 and mean absolute percent error (using NCHS ethnicity of mother -- unknowns recoded to ethnicity of father) 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 0.99455 0.99096 0.00545 0.00904 20.0459 ALASKA 0.97255 0.95611 0.02745 0.04389 19.5906 ARIZONA 0.72678 0.71018 0.27322 0.28982 4.0339 ARKANSAS 0.99087 0.98577 0.00913 0.01423 18.1658 CALIFORNIA 0.61860 0.61910 0.38140 0.38090 0.1071 COLORADO 0.83603 0.80726 0.16397 0.19274 9.2449 CONNECTICUT 0.89013 0.88917 0.10987 0.11083 0.4853 DELAWARE 0.97019 0.96119 0.02981 0.03881 12.0610 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 0.93143 0.92298 0.06857 0.07702 5.9442 FLORIDA 0.86747 0.86586 0.13253 0.13414 0.6915 GEORGIA 0.98280 0.97674 0.01720 0.02326 13.3438 HAWAII 0.89225 0.87629 0.10775 0.12371 7.3628 IDAHO 0.92233 0.90161 0.07767 0.09839 11.6773 ILLINOIS 0.88104 0.87253 0.11896 0.12747 3.8295 INDIANA 0.98062 0.97410 0.01938 0.02590 12.9123 IOWA 0.98545 0.97883 0.01455 0.02117 15.9757 KANSAS 0.95340 0.93340 0.04660 0.06660 16.0863 KENTUCKY 0.99469 0.99124 0.00531 0.00876 19.9071 LOUISIANA 0.98827 0.97642 0.01173 0.02358 25.7262 MAINE 0.99298 0.98963 0.00702 0.01037 16.3222 MARYLAND 0.97124 0.96389 0.02876 0.03611 10.5589 MASSACHUSETTS 0.91282 0.90906 0.08718 0.09094 2.2746 MICHIGAN 0.97043 0.96483 0.02957 0.03517 8.2454 MINNESOTA 0.98280 0.97620 0.01720 0.02380 14.1995 MISSISSIPPI 0.99755 0.99240 0.00245 0.00760 34.1316 MISSOURI 0.98770 0.98229 0.01230 0.01771 15.5395 MONTANA 0.97866 0.97332 0.02134 0.02668 10.2886 NEBRASKA 0.96793 0.95833 0.03207 0.04167 12.0175 NEVADA 0.87101 0.83129 0.12899 0.16871 14.1592 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0.98807 0.98291 0.01193 0.01709 15.3638 NEW JERSEY 0.85592 0.86950 0.14408 0.13050 5.9829 NEW MEXICO 0.56517 0.53631 0.43483 0.46369 5.8027 NEW YORK 0.81980 0.82719 0.18020 0.17281 2.5850 NORTH CAROLINA 0.98487 0.97976 0.01513 0.02024 12.8810 NORTH DAKOTA 0.98921 0.98621 0.01079 0.01379 11.0170 OHIO 0.98622 0.97958 0.01378 0.02042 16.6121 OKLAHOMA 0.97954 0.94900 0.02046 0.05100 31.5515 OREGON 0.94347 0.92050 0.05653 0.07950 15.6984 PENNSYLVANIA 0.96867 0.96341 0.03133 0.03659 7.4532 RHODE ISLAND 0.90349 0.91053 0.09651 0.08947 4.3178 SOUTH CAROLINA 0.99101 0.98634 0.00899 0.01366 17.3461 SOUTH DAKOTA 0.99038 0.98489 0.00962 0.01511 18.4539 TENNESSEE 0.99489 0.99026 0.00511 0.00974 24.0089 TEXAS 0.64487 0.65151 0.35513 0.34849 1.4615 UTAH 0.94523 0.93159 0.05477 0.06841 10.6996 VERMONT 0.99335 0.99273 0.00665 0.00727 4.2850 VIRGINIA 0.96664 0.96103 0.03336 0.03897 7.4968 WASHINGTON 0.93316 0.91534 0.06684 0.08466 11.4962 WEST VIRGINIA 0.99692 0.99385 0.00308 0.00615 25.0838 WISCONSIN 0.97604 0.96419 0.02396 0.03581 17.1594 WYOMING 0.93660 0.91451 0.06340 0.08549 14.1285 US Total 0.85944 0.86181 0.14056 0.13819 0.9954