Census Bureau

Table 4-1H.

Multiracial Issue: Comparison of Panel B (With a Multiracial Category) and Panel C ("Mark One or More" Instruction) for the White Ethnic Targeted Sample, by Hispanic Origin: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanation of detailed tables)
Hispanic origin Panel B:
with a multiracial
category		 Panel C:
"mark one or more"
instruction		 Difference
(Panel C minus Panel B)
Estimate 90-percent
confidence level
Count or
estimate		 Standard
error		 Count or
estimate		 Standard
error		 Lower
bound		 Upper
bound
               
Total persons on mail returns 4,454   2,253        
 Item nonresponse rate (percent) 4.29 0.4 3.24 0.5 * -1.05 -1.97 -0.12
               
 Responses to Hispanic origin question 4,263   2,180        
               
Percent distribution of responses              
               
  Total 100.00   100.00        
Not Hispanic 97.94 0.4 98.85 0.3 * 0.92 0.09 1.75
Hispanic 2.06 0.4 1.15 0.3 * -0.92 -1.75 -0.09
* Asterisk (if any) indicates that difference is statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division and
Decennial Statistical Studies Division
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