TABLE 16. Multiracial Category -- Percent Distribution of Mail
          Returns for Native-Born Persons, for the Race-First
          Sequence: 1996 National Content Survey

(Nativity based on responses to a question in the NCS reinterview.)
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                    |        Panel 1|          Panel 2|  Difference 1/
                    | No Multiracial| With Multiracial| (Panel 2 minus
Subject             |       Category|         Category|       Panel 1)
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                    |               |                 |
RACE 2/             |               |                 |
                    |               |                 |
White               |           84.7|             84.2|           -0.4
Black               |           11.2|             11.4|            0.2
American Indian,    |               |                 |
 Eskimo, and Aleut  |            0.5|              0.4|           -0.1
Asian and Pacific   |               |                 |
 Islander           |            1.0|              0.7|           -0.4
Other race          |            2.6|              1.8|           -0.8
Multiracial or      |               |                 |
 biracial           |            N/A|              1.5|            N/A
                    |               |                 |
HISPANIC ORIGIN 3/  |               |                 |
                    |               |                 |
Not Hispanic        |           93.8|             94.0|            0.2
Total Hispanic      |            6.2|              6.0|           -0.2
  Mexican           |            4.1|              3.6|           -0.5
  Puerto Rican      |            0.5|              0.8|            0.3
  Cuban             |            0.4|              ...|           -0.4
  Other Hispanic    |            1.2|              1.6|            0.4
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NOTES:  Data may not sum due to rounding.

        ... Represents zero or rounds to zero.

        N/A - Not applicable

        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/  There are no statistically significant differences in
    percentages at the 90-percent confidence level in this table.
2/  Data based on persons who responded to the race question.
3/  Data based on persons who responded to the Hispanic origin question.