Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test - Table I-2. Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the White Population in the White Ethnic Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel C: 1996 RAETT

Race	Panel description	Panel A		Panel C		Difference (Panel C minus Panel A)
	Sequence >	Hispanic origin question first		Hispanic origin question first
	Multiracial category >	No		No
	Race instruction >	Mark one		Mark one or more		Estimate	90-percent confidence level
		Count or estimate	Standard error	Count or estimate	Standard error	Estimate	Lower bound	Upper bound

Mail return responses to race question		4,416		2,222

Percent of responses

White only		95.88	0.7	96.04	0.7	0.16	-1.79	2.11
White - historical series 1/		96.51	0.6	96.89	0.7	0.38	-1.43	2.19
White - all inclusive 2/		96.94	0.6	97.39	0.6	0.45	-1.27	2.17

*	Asterisk (if any) indicates that difference is statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level.
1/	White only; White and "Other race," and White and multiracial category; and White, "Other race," and multiracial category.
2/	White only; and White with any other response on race.

Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test
Table I-2.	Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the White Population in the White Ethnic Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel C: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanations of detailed tables)