Census Bureau

Table 9-1H.

Combined Question Issue: Comparison of Panel B (Separate Questions with a Multiracial Category) and Panel E (Combined Question with a Multiracial Category) for the White Ethnic Targeted Sample, by Hispanic Origin: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanation of detailed tables)
Hispanic origin Panel B:
separate questions
with a multiracial
category		 Panel E:
combined question
with a multiracial
category		 Difference
(Panel E 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   4,388        
 Item nonresponse rate (percent) 4.29 0.4 1.03 0.2 * -3.26 -4.04 -2.48
               
 Responses to Hispanic origin question 4,263   4,343        
               
Percent distribution of responses              
               
  Total 100.00   100.00        
Not Hispanic 97.94 0.4 98.41 0.4 0.48 -0.39 1.34
Hispanic 2.06 0.4 1.59 0.4 -0.48 -1.34 0.39
* 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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