Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test - Table I-31. Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the Hispanic Population in the Hispanic 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		4,747		5,235

Percent of responses

Hispanic only 1/		76.55	1.0	57.48	1.4	* -19.08	-21.80	-16.35
Hispanic - historical series 1/, 2/		76.55	1.0	73.45	1.1	* -3.11	-5.58	-0.63
Hispanic - all inclusive 3/		76.55	1.0	74.12	1.1	-2.44	-4.89	0.02

*	Asterisk (if any) indicates that difference is statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level.
1/	Separate questions on race and Hispanic origin, because they allow Hispanics to report any race, provide data on Hispanic origin that are most comparable to data from the all-inclusive approach. The estimate from the separate question in Panel A (76.55 percent) is also shown on the data lines for "Hispanic only" and "Hispanic - historical series" to permit comparison using each of the three illustrative approaches with estimates from the combined question in Panel E.
2/	Hispanic only; Hispanic and White; Hispanic and "Other race," and Hispanic and multiracial category; and Hispanic and two or more races, excluding Black, AIAN, and API.
3/	For Panel A with a separate question on Hispanic origin: responses of Hispanic. For panel E with a combined question on race and origin: Hispanic only, and Hispanic with any other response on race.

Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test
Table I-31.	Illustrative Approaches to Racial Classification of the Hispanic Population in the Hispanic Targeted Sample for Panel A and Panel E: 1996 RAETT
(See Appendix C, Introduction, for explanations of detailed tables)