Table 22. Alternative Sequencing -- Percent Distribution of Mail
          Returns for Native Born Persons, by Race and
          Hispanic Origin, With a Multiracial Category:
          1996 National Content Survey

(Nativity based on responses to a question in the NCS reinterview.)
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                             |   Panel 2|         Panel 4|  Difference 1/
                             |Race-First|Hispanic Origin-| (Panel 4 minus
Subject                      |  Sequence|  First Sequence|       Panel 2)
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                             |          |                |
RACE 2/                      |          |                |
                             |          |                |
White                        |      84.2|            85.3|            1.0
Black                        |      11.4|            11.7|            0.4
American Indian,             |          |                |
 Eskimo, and Aleut           |       0.4|             0.3|            ...
Asian and Pacific            |          |                |
 Islander                    |       0.7|             0.6|            ...
Other race                   |       1.8|             0.9|          *-0.9
Multiracial or               |          |                |
 biracial                    |       1.5|             1.1|           -0.4
                             |          |                |
HISPANIC ORIGIN 3/           |          |                |
                             |          |                |
Not Hispanic                 |      94.0|            95.3|            1.3
Total Hispanic               |       6.0|             4.7|           -1.3
  Mexican                    |       3.6|             2.7|           -0.9
  Puerto Rican               |       0.8|             0.3|           -0.4
  Cuban                      |       ...|             ...|            ...
  Other Hispanic             |       1.6|             1.7|            0.1
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NOTES: Data may not sum due to rounding.

       ... Represents zero or rounds to zero.

       The NCS sample was not designed to detect possible
       differences in responses from relatively small population
       groups, such as American Indians and Alaska Natives,
       detailed Asian and Pacific Islander groups (such as
       Chinese or Hawaiians) or detailed Hispanic origin groups
       (such as Puerto Ricans or Cubans).

1/  Asterisk (*) indicates a statistically significant difference
    at the 90-percent confidence level.
2/  Data based on persons who responded to the race question.
3/  Data based on persons who responded to the Hispanic origin question.