Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test - Table I-27. Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Population in the Asian and Pacific Islander 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		5,563		5,913

Percent of responses

API only		64.95	1.2	57.96	1.2	* -6.99	-9.63	-4.35
API - historical series 1/		67.97	1.2	61.88	1.2	* -6.09	-8.59	-3.59
API - all inclusive 2/		68.38	1.2	62.71	1.2	* -5.67	-8.17	-3.17

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

Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test
Table I-27.	Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Population in the Asian and Pacific Islander Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel E: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanations of detailed tables)