Census Bureau

Table 7-1H.

Sequencing Issue: Comparison of Panel D (Race Question First) and Panel B (Hispanic Origin Question First) for the White Ethnic Targeted Sample, by Hispanic Origin: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanation of detailed tables)
Hispanic origin Panel D:
race
question first		 Panel B:
Hispanic origin
question first		 Difference
(Panel B minus Panel D)
Estimate 90-percent
confidence level
Count or
estimate		 Standard
error		 Count or
estimate		 Standard
error		 Lower
bound		 Upper
bound
               
Total persons on mail returns 4,547   4,454        
 Item nonresponse rate (percent) 10.58 0.7 4.29 0.4 * -6.29 -7.74 -4.84
               
 Responses to Hispanic origin question 4,066   4,263        
               
Percent distribution of responses              
               
  Total 100.00   100.00        
Not Hispanic 98.40 0.3 97.94 0.4 -0.47 -1.31 0.38
Hispanic 1.60 0.3 2.06 0.4 0.47 -0.38 1.31
* 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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