Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test - Table I-18. Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Population in the American Indian Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel E: 1996 RAETT

Race	Panel description	Panel A		Panel E		Difference (Panel E minus Panel A)
	Sequence >	Hispanic origin question first		Combined question
	Multiracial category >	No		Yes
	Race instruction >	Mark one		Mark one		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		3,168		3,245

Percent of responses

AIAN only		35.76	1.6	34.42	1.7	-1.34	-4.74	2.06
AIAN - historical series 1/		36.68	1.6	35.84	1.6	-0.84	-4.35	2.67
AIAN - all inclusive 2/		36.93	1.6	36.98	1.6	0.05	-3.41	3.51

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

Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test
Table I-18.	Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Population in the American Indian Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel E: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanations of detailed tables)