Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test

Race or origin	Panel B: separate questions with a multiracial category		Panel E: combined question with a multiracial category		Difference (Panel E minus Panel B)
	Panel B: separate questions with a multiracial category		Panel E: combined question 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	5,954		5,951
Item nonresponse rate (percent)	2.89	0.5	0.64	0.1	* -2.25	-2.99	-1.51

Responses to race question	5,782		5,913

Percent distribution of responses

Total	100.00		100.00
White	18.47	0.8	16.66	0.8	* -1.81	-3.26	-0.37
Black	6.05	0.5	6.07	0.6	0.02	-1.20	1.23
Hispanic			11.03	0.7
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.36	0.1	0.12	0.1	-0.24	-0.50	0.01
Asian and Pacific Islander	60.48	1.2	57.96	1.2	* -2.52	-4.88	-0.17
Chinese	17.50	0.9	13.87	0.8	* -3.63	-5.41	-1.86
Filipino	18.71	1.0	15.44	0.9	* -3.27	-5.05	-1.49
Hawaiian	5.48	0.5	5.83	0.5	0.35	-0.82	1.52
Korean	1.59	0.3	0.93	0.2	* -0.66	-1.19	-0.13
Vietnamese	1.50	0.3	1.00	0.2	-0.51	-1.18	0.17
Japanese	8.22	0.6	7.86	0.5	-0.35	-1.52	0.82
Asian Indian	0.48	0.2	0.10	0.1	* -0.38	-0.67	-0.09
Samoan	1.37	0.3	0.81	0.2	-0.55	-1.13	0.02
Guamanian	0.29	0.1	0.02	0.0	* -0.28	-0.43	-0.13
Other Asian and Pacific Islander	5.33	0.6	12.09	0.7	* 6.77	5.18	8.35
Other race	4.00	0.5	0.68	0.2	* -3.32	-4.18	-2.46
Multiracial category/multiple race	7.58	0.7	5.18	0.5	* -2.40	-3.78	-1.02
Unrequested multiple response	3.06	0.4	2.32	0.3	-0.74	-1.56	0.07