Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test

Race or origin	Panel C: separate questions with a "mark one or more" instruction		Panel F: combined question with a "mark one or more" instruction		Difference (Panel F minus Panel C)
					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	3,084		6,060
Item nonresponse rate (percent)	3.31	0.7	0.99	0.2	* -2.32	-3.50	-1.13

Responses to race question	2,982		6,000

Percent distribution of responses

Total	100.00		100.00
White	16.90	1.1	17.12	0.9	0.22	-1.91	2.34
Black	4.06	0.6	4.75	0.5	0.69	-0.64	2.03
Hispanic			9.33	0.7
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.13	0.1	0.43	0.2	0.30	-0.01	0.61
Asian and Pacific Islander	64.76	1.5	60.43	1.1	* -4.32	-7.08	-1.56
Chinese	17.47	1.2	15.05	0.9	-2.42	-4.94	0.10
Filipino	19.58	1.7	17.12	0.9	-2.47	-5.60	0.66
Hawaiian	4.66	0.7	4.20	0.5	-0.46	-1.87	0.94
Korean	1.51	0.5	0.98	0.2	-0.53	-1.37	0.32
Vietnamese	0.84	0.3	1.53	0.3	0.69	-0.06	1.45
Japanese	8.75	0.8	8.18	0.5	-0.57	-1.95	0.81
Asian Indian	0.74	0.3	0.47	0.2	-0.27	-0.87	0.33
Samoan	1.27	0.4	0.88	0.3	-0.39	-1.25	0.47
Guamanian	0.00	0.0	0.18	0.1	0.18	0.00	0.37
Other Asian and Pacific Islander	9.93	0.9	11.83	0.8	* 1.91	0.04	3.78
Other race	4.12	0.8	1.13	0.3	* -2.99	-4.35	-1.64
Multiracial category/multiple race	10.03	1.0	6.80	0.6	* -3.23	-5.01	-1.44
Unrequested multiple response