Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test - Table I-12. Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the Black Population in the Black Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel F: 1996 RAETT

Race	Panel description	Panel A		Panel F		Difference (Panel F minus Panel A)
	Sequence >	Hispanic origin question first		Combined question
	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		4,365		4,742

Percent of responses

Black only		71.52	1.3	71.74	1.1	0.22	-2.32	2.76
Black - historical series 1/		71.80	1.3	72.16	1.1	0.37	-2.14	2.87
Black - all inclusive 2/		72.12	1.3	72.92	1.1	0.80	-1.70	3.30

*	Asterisk (if any) indicates that difference is statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level.
1/	Black only; Black and White; Black and "Other race," and Black and multiracial category; and Black and two or more other races, excluding AIAN and API (and excluding Hispanic in Panel F).
2/	Black only, and Black with any other response on race.

Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test
Table I-12.	Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the Black Population in the Black Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel F: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanations of detailed tables)