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1 Introduction to GIS

2 » Should the census collect racial data at all?

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8 » Hispanic or Latino asked before race (in 1990 asked after race question) » Respondents could select more than one race (in 1990 could only select one Hispanic origin and one race response) » American Indian and Alaska Native combined (in 1990 they were separate) » Asian and Pacific Islander category split (was one category in 1990)

9 » More and improved information on racial and ethnic diversity » Census 2000 race data are not directly comparable with data from 1990 and previous censuses

10 IF ONLY ONE CATEGORY IS SELECTED… 1.White 2.Black or African American 3.American Indian and Alaska Native 4.Asian 5.Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 6.Some other race

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12 » Race alone ˃Respondents who reported only one race » Race in combination ˃Respondents who reported two or more races » Race alone or in combination ˃Respondents who reported one race, plus ˃those who reported that race in combination with at least one other race

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16 » 7 mutually exclusive racial categories ˃White alone ˃Black or African American alone ˃American Indian & Alaska Native alone ˃Asian alone ˃Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander alone ˃Some other race alone ˃Two or more races (57) » Hispanic or Latino ˃White alone, not Hispanic or Latino

17 ˃ 6 Race alone categories ˃+15 Categories of 2 races ˃+20 Categories of 3 races ˃+15 Categories of 4 races ˃+ 6 Categories of 5 races ˃+ 1 Category of 6 races » 63 possible combinations

18 » In some tabulations, race data will be shown for 63 categories » In other tabulations race will be collapsed and shown as ˃Race alone categories ˃A two or more races category ˃Race alone or in combination with one or more races » Data for Hispanic/Latino in many tables

19 » Respondents providing write-in entries, such as, multiracial, mixed, interracial, or a Hispanic or Latino group are included in the “Some Other Race” category » In Census 2000 about 43 percent of Hispanics or Latinos classified themselves as “Some Other Race” » In Census 2000, 97 percent of the people who reported as “Some Other Race” were Hispanic or Latino.

20 » The six race alone groups and the two or more races group, when combined, sum to 100 percent of the population 100% population

21 ApacheDelawarePotawatomi BlackfeetHoumaPueblo CherokeeIroquoisPuget Sound Salish CheyenneKiowaSeminole Chickasaw*Latin Am.Shoshone Chippewa LumbeeSioux ChoctawMenomineeTohomo O’Odham ColvilleNavajoUte ComancheOsage Yakama CreeOttawaYaqui Creek Paiute Yuman Crow Pima All other categories *Aztec, Inca, Mayan, etc.

22 Mexican Puerto Rican Cuban Dominican Republic Central American: Costa Rican Guatemalan Honduran Nicaraguan Panamanian Salvadoran Other Central American South American: Argentinean Bolivian Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Paraguayan Peruvian Uruguayan Venezuelan Other South American Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard Spanish Spanish American All other Hispanic or Latino

23 Alaska Athabaskan Aleut Eskimo Tlingit-Haida All other tribes

24 Asian IndianLaotian BangladeshiMalaysian CambodianPakistani Chinese, except TaiwaneseSri Lankan Filipino Taiwanese Hmong Thai IndonesianVietnamese JapaneseOther Asian Korean

25 Polynesian: Native Hawaiian Samoan Tongan Other Polynesian Micronesian: Guamanian or Chamorro Other Micronesian Melanesian Fijian Other Melanesian Other Pacific Islander

26 75.1 74.6 30.8 90.1 64.0 72.1 85.0 72.3 95.0 12.3 19.2 60.0 7.3 27.9 21.6 11.5 19.6 3.2 United States Delaware DC Kentucky Maryland North Carolina Ohio Virginia West Virginia White alone Black alone AIAN alone Asian alone NHOPI alone SOR alone Two or more races RACE DISTRIBUTION: 2000 Source: U.S. Census Breau, Census 2000 Summary File 1.

27 White; SORWhite; AIAN White; AsianWhite; Black Black; SORBlack; AIANWhite; Black; AIAN 32.3 15.9 12.7 11.5 6.1 30.3 26.1 11.1 2.8 21.7 18.8 18.1 11.7 5.9 27.8 21.9 16.4 11.4 4.9 37.8 26.3 10.810.7 2.3 14.5 United StatesWest VirginiaOhioNorth Carolina Kentucky Top 5 Race Combinations: 2000 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 1.

28 » With caution » Direct comparisons back to 1990 racial categories cannot be made

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30 » Race alone categories: the lower range » Race alone or in combination categories: the upper range

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32 » 249 Iterations of racial and Hispanic or Latino categories, and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes » 1 Iteration for the total population Totals and Characteristics Available For User selects specific iteration

33 » Population Totals For ˃6 Racial categories (alone) ˃Hispanic or Latino by race plus 108 Ancestry groups (Same as Summary File 1)

34 Totals and Characteristics Available For » 249 Iterations (same as Summary File 2) » 86 Iterations of ancestry categories » 1 Iteration for the total population plus 336 Iterations User selects specific iteration

35 Population Totals For ˃6 Racial categories (alone) ˃Hispanic or Latino and race 4 Combinations of two races ˃White; Black or African American ˃White; American Indian and Alaska Native ˃White; Asian ˃Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native

36 RELEASED MAY 10, 2006 (WEDNESDAY) Table 1: Race and Hispanic or Latino Origin of the Population for the United States: 2004 and 2005 Change: July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005 Race and Hispanic or Latino OriginJuly 1, 2005July 1, 2004NumericalPercent TOTAL POPULATION296,410,404293,656,8422,753,5620.9% One race291,831,380289,212,8672,618,5130.9% White237,854,954236,063,8461,791,1080.8% Black37,909,34137,496,357412,9841.1% American Indian and Alaska Native2,863,0012,825,46037,5411.3% Asian12,687,47212,320,873366,5993.0% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander516,612506,33110,2812.0% Two or more races4,579,0244,443,975135,0493.0% RACE ALONE OR IN COMBINATION White241,806,816239,891,6221,915,1940.8% Black39,724,13639,228,508495,6281.3% American Indian and Alaska Native4,453,6604,410,69042,9701.0% Asian14,376,65813,956,004420,6543.0% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander989,673974,85314,8201.5% HISPANIC (of any race)42,687,22441,337,7621,349,4623.3% WHITE ALONE, NOT HISPANIC198,366,437197,843,308523,1290.3%

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