TABLE 15. Item Nonresponse Rate on Mail Returns on the Race Question for Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Origin Persons: 1996 National Content Survey (Hispanic origin based on responses to the Hispanic origin question in the NCS reinterview.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Hispanic origin| Non-Hispanic Subject | Persons|origin Persons ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Race-first sequence: | | Panel 1, no multiracial | 27.1| 1.1 Panel 2, with multiracial | 29.0| 2.2 | | Hispanic origin-first sequence: | | Panel 3, no multiracial | 31.0| 1.2 Panel 4, with multiracial | 36.5| 2.1 | | | | DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PANELS 1/ | | | | Panel 2 minus Panel 1 | 1.8| *1.2 Panel 3 minus Panel 1 | 3.9| 0.2 Panel 4 minus Panel 2 | 7.6| -0.2 Panel 4 minus Panel 3 | 5.5| 0.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES: Data may not sum due to rounding. 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.