Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test

Race	Panel A: no multiracial category		Panel B: with a multiracial category		Difference (Panel B minus Panel A)
	Panel A: no multiracial category		Panel B: with a multiracial category		Estimate	90-percent confidence level
	Count or estimate	Standard error	Count or estimate	Standard error	Estimate	Lower bound	Upper bound

Total persons on mail returns	5,764		5,954
Item nonresponse rate (percent)	3.49	0.4	2.89	0.5	-0.60	-1.69	0.49

Responses to race question	5,563		5,782

Percent distribution of responses

Total	100.00		100.00
White	20.56	0.9	18.47	0.8	* -2.09	-3.95	-0.24
Black	5.99	0.7	6.05	0.5	0.07	-1.30	1.43
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.31	0.1	0.36	0.1	0.06	-0.24	0.35
Asian and Pacific Islander	64.95	1.2	60.48	1.2	* -4.47	-7.09	-1.84
Chinese	17.76	0.9	17.50	0.9	-0.26	-2.35	1.83
Filipino	19.72	1.1	18.71	1.0	-1.01	-3.23	1.22
Hawaiian	9.20	0.7	5.48	0.5	* -3.72	-5.25	-2.19
Korean	1.55	0.4	1.59	0.3	0.05	-0.67	0.76
Vietnamese	1.40	0.3	1.50	0.3	0.10	-0.62	0.83
Japanese	8.21	0.6	8.22	0.6	0.00	-1.34	1.34
Asian Indian	1.24	0.3	0.48	0.2	* -0.76	-1.33	-0.18
Samoan	1.01	0.3	1.37	0.3	0.36	-0.29	1.01
Guamanian	0.00	0.0	0.29	0.1	* 0.29	0.15	0.44td>
Other Asian and Pacific Islander	4.85	0.5	5.33	0.6	0.47	-0.64	1.59
Other race	4.44	0.5	4.00	0.5	-0.44	-1.44	0.55
Multiracial category/multiple race			7.58	0.7
Unrequested multiple response	3.76	0.4	3.06	0.4	-0.70	-1.65	0.26